Period 4 APUSH

neomercantilism

government controls capatal, increase exports, decrease imports

Common Wealth System

“common good”

Market revolution

factories take the place of farms

Cotton Complex

Cotton was a major cash crop that effected slavery

Waltham-Lowell System

young girls work in factories

Manumission

legal act of freeing an enslaved person by an owner

inland system

enslaved people were sold deeper south

paternalism

salve holder were “father figures” to slaves

artisan republicanism

liberty through your own labor no boss

labor theory of value

value should come from the work being put in, workers should get majority profit

middle class

steady incomes that believe in education and hard work

John Jacob Astor

American Fur Company owner wealthy man

Samuel Morse

telegraph inventor

Cyrus McCormick

mechanical reaper

elite

small wealthy group

Panic of 1819

first economic depression, due to loans

Erie Canal

waterway that connects Hudson river to great lakes

Industrial Revolution

handmade goods- machine made goods

mechanics

skilled workers and craftsmen

gradual emancipation

plan to end slavery slowly overtime

costal trade

slave trade that took place across the Atlantic Coast

“positive good”

slavery was beneficial

machine tools

parts used to make the machines

unions

workers form unions for harsh conditions

gang-labor system

organized work on plantaions where slaves worked in groups

self-made man

Anyone can rise from poverty to wealth

Samuel Slater

brought the textile mill to America

Francis Cabot Lowell

brought textile manufactoring to America

Eli Whitney

inventor of the cotton gin

franchise

the right to vote

political machine

groups that help a political aprty get elected

caucus

a meeting of party members to choose canidates

internal improvements

government funds projects to grow econonmy

tariff of abominations

a high tariff that raised prices on imported goods

states’ rights

federal govt. can’t take powers

Indian Removal Act of 1830

forces Natives to move west of mississippi

classical liberalism/ laissez- faire

limited govt. personal liberty

Panic of 1837

economic depression

Martin Van Buren

8th president helped build party system 1837

Daniel Webster

speaker and senator that kept the Union together

Roger B. Taney

Supreme Court Justice leader pro slavery

Log Cabin Campaign

Willima Henry Harrison common man

“The Democracy”

democratic, state right and common man

King 'Mob’

nickname for Jackson

Republican Motherhood

teach chcildren republican values and morals

notables

those who dominated politics before voting change

spoils system

political party gives jobs to friends

American System

national bank, protective tariffs, internal improvements

Corrupt Bargain

John Quincy Adams in office over Jackson because of electoral college

nullification

state refuses law

2nd Bank

stabalize economy Andrew Jackson ends it

Trail of Tears

Indians died on the way to Mississippi

Whigs

strong federal govt., American System, economic modernization

Specie Circular

an order that public land will be purchase with gold or silver

John C. Calhoun

vice president of Jackson states rights, nullification

Nicholas Biddle

defended bank’s role

John Tyler

president after WIlliam Henry Harrison death

Andrew Jackson

7th President democrat, spoils system, common man

Second Party System

Democrats vs. Whigs

Demographic Transition

the change in birth and death rates

Missouri Compromise

36’ 30 Maine trades Missouri

individualism

people should rely on themselves and their own talents

Benevolent Empire

groups to improve societal norms

American Renaissance

American culture changes

Mormons

Joseph Smith

minstreslsy

shows that make fun of slaves

abolitionism

against slavery

Underground Railroad

Slaves traveling to freedom

Seperate Sphere

Married Women’s property laws

laws that allow woman more rights

Seneca Falls Convention

first womens rights convention

William Lloyd Garrison

aboltionist

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

womens rights leader e

Joseph Smith

Leader of Mormon

Charles Grandison Finney

second awakening personal salvation abolition

Second Great Awakening

focuses on changing

Maine Law

no alcohol

romanticism

US becomes more emotionalism

utopias

society where everything is perfect

plural marriage

multiple wives

AME church

African American Church

David Walker’s Appeal

urging salves to fight for freedom

amalgation

mixing of races

Liberty Party

promotes abolition through action

domestic slavery

slavery within the family and home

American Anti-Slavery Society

abolitionist movement

Nat Turner

violent slave rebellion leader

Dorthea Dix

women rights leader d

Susan B Anthony

womens rights leader sba

the shakers

a religious group

Grimke sisters

women right leader gs

slave society

slavery is important we

Great American Desert

western plains

Secret Ballot

voters choice is private

track system

students had different tracks

manifest destiny

Americans are ordered by God to discover the land

Californios

hispanic resident of california

Sam Houston

military leader and first governor of Texas

Santa Anna

Mexican General who led forces against Texas

Zachary Taylor

12th president and military officer