cpush vocab unit 2

Market Revolution

The major change in the US economy produced by people's beginning to buy and sell goods rather than making them for themselves.

Monroe Doctrine

A policy of US opposition to any European interference in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere, announced by President Monroe in 1823.

Indian Removal Act

A law enacted in 1830, that forced Native American peoples east of the Mississippi to move to lands.

Trail of Tears

The marches in which Cherokee people were forcibly removed from Georgia to the Indian Territory in 1838-1840 with 1000s of the Cherokee dying on the way.

Capitalism

An economic system in which private individuals and corporations control the means of production and use them to earn profits.

telegraph

A device for the electrical transmission of coded messages over wires.

Entrepreneur

A person who organizes, operates, and assumes the risk for a business venture.

Oregon trail

A route from Independence Missouri to Oregon City, Oregon. Used by pioneers traveling to the Oregon territory.

Abolition

A movement to end slavery.

Frederick Douglas

Escaped slave who became leading abolitionist.

Antebellum

Belonging to the period before the civil war.

Compromise of 1850

A series of Congressional measures intended to settle major disagreements between free and slave states.

Underground Railroad

A system of routes along which runaway slaves were helped to escape to safe areas in free states.

Fugitive Slave Act

A law enacted as part of the Compromise of 1850, designed to ensure that escaped slaves would be returned into bondage.

Kansas-Nebraska Act

A law enacted in 1854 that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and gave their residents the right to decide whether to allow slavery or not.

Fort Sumter

An island fort in the Charleston harbor and the site of the confederate attack on Union troops that began the civil war.

Antietam

A Maryland creek and site of the bloodiest single-day battle in American history during the Civil War.

Emancipation Proclamation

An executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1st 1863, freeing slaves in all regions behind confederate lines.

Gettysburg

The Pennsylvania location of the most decisive battle of the Civil War. Fought July 1-3 1863.

Thirteenth Amendment

An amendment to the US Constitution, adopted in 1865 that has abolished slavery and involuntary servitude.

missouri compromise

A series of agreements passed by congress in 1820-1821 to maintain the balance of power between slave states and free states.