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Vocabulary flashcards about Territorial Expansion and Industrialization
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Cost
A negative consequence.
Benefit
A positive consequence.
Manifest Destiny
Belief that U.S. was destined to expand to the Pacific.
Indian Removal Act
Law forcing Native Americans west of the Mississippi.
Trail of Tears
Forced relocation of Cherokee; 4,000 died.
Annex
To add territory.
Missouri Compromise
Allowed Missouri as slave state; banned slavery north of Missouri’s southern border in LA Territory.
Tariff
Tax on imported goods to protect U.S. manufacturing.
Textile Mill
Factory that produces cloth.
Factory System
Machines + workers producing goods.
Worcester v. Georgia
Ruled that federal gov’t, not states, control Native American policy.
Nullification
Belief that states can cancel federal laws.
Abolition
To end slavery.
Nativism
Anti-immigrant beliefs.
Underground Railroad
Network of escape routes and safe houses for enslaved people.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Women’s rights activist; helped organize Seneca Falls Convention.
Frederick Douglass
Escaped slavery; powerful abolitionist speaker and writer.
Harriet Tubman
Conductor on the Underground Railroad.