apush unit 2 flash cards
Vocabulary List – Unit 2 Vocabulary Assignment Name _______________________________
Term | Date? What is it? | Why is it important? |
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Roger B. Taney | 5th Chief Justice of the US | |
Barbary Pirates | mainly Muslim pirates and privateers who operated from the Barbary states | |
Cotton Gin | A machine that removes seeds from cotton fibers → increase in cotton production | |
Embargo Act | Outlawed trade between America and any foreign port | Closed off our economy → led to further conflict with Britain |
Missouri Compromise | half free half slave | |
Louisiana Purchase | Bought the midwest from France | |
Marbury v. Madison | Judicial review → has the power to interpret laws and decide if they violate the constitution | |
Market Revolution | Transforming American Business and Global Trade | |
2nd Great Awakening | Religious + reformation | |
Battle of Tippecanoe | Fought over the white expansion of the Indian territory | |
Deism | Deusts accepted the existence of God, but considered him a remote being that after creating the universe, withdrew from involvement with the human race. | |
John Marshall | -established the court's power through landmark decisions (Marbury v Madison, etc.) | |
Lewis and Clark | Went on expeditions to explore the west of the US → after the LP | |
McCulloch v. Maryland | upheld constitutionally of the natio nal bank using an “elastic clause” | |
Battle of New Orleans | Part of War of 1812 → The British tried to take NO | |
Hartford Convention | Convention where the Federalist Party dissolved | |
Henry Clay | The “Great Compromiser” | |
Treaty of Ghent | Treaty between GB and USA ended the war of 1812 | |
Gibbons v. Ogden | Federal government holds the authority to regulate interstate commerce. | |
Monroe Doctrine | A policy that furthers European colonization of the West is considered hostile. | |
Wildcat/Pet Banks | Financial institutions that sprang up int he West and were involved in risky land speculation on the frontier. | |
Tariff of Abominations | raised taxes on imported manufactured goods as to reduce foreign competition with American manufacturing | |
John C. Calhoun | The senate's most prominent state’s rights advocate | |
Spoils System | The political tactic of employing and promoting civil servants who are the supporters and friends of the group in power to office. | |
Nullification Crisis | Showdown between president Andrew Jackson and the South Carolina legislature over former attempts to declare null and void of Federal Tariffs | |
Indian Removal Act | The forcible removal of Indians from their land | |
Worcester v. Georgia | states did not have the right to impose regulations on Native American land. | |
Frederick Douglass | African American abolitionist | |
Hartford Convention | A series of meetings in which New Englad federalists discussed their complaints and and wrongs that they felt had been done → opposed the war of 1812 | |
Erie Canal | An artificial waterway connected the Hudson river with lake Erie | The first great westward movement |
Nicholas Biddle | President of the second national bank. | |
Nativism | The policy of protecting native-born inhabitants | |
Know-Nothings | A 19th-century political party that opposed immigrants in the US and those who followed the Catholic faith | |
Nat Turner | Slave from VA that led a group of slaves to kill slaveholders and their families | |
Cyrus McCormick | Invented the mechanical reaver → made farming more efficient | |
Susan B. Anthony | A leader in the woman suffrage movement | |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Organized the first demand for woman suffrage in the US | |
Dorothea Dix | A pioneer in the movement to improve conditions for the mentally ill | |
Harriet Beecher Stowe | Wrote the abolitionist book → encouraged people to stand against slavery | |
Henry David Thoreau | Henry David Thoreau was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist | |
Hudson River School | 19th century art movement focused on nature and inspired by romanticism | |
Charles Grandison Finney | Charles Grandison Finney was an American Presbyterian minister and leader in the Second Great Awakening in the United States | |
Horace Mann | Criticized the educational system of the US | |
William Henry Harrison | -shortest presidency -served in the indian wars, war of 1812. | |
Seneca Falls Conference | First women’s right convention | |
Mormons | a religious group who were followers of Joseph Smith | |
Dartmouth v. Woodward | States cannot interfere with the property rights and contracts of private businesses | e |
Bank of the U.S. | A central bank -private bank issued paper money, completed commercial transactions, and collected government tax revenues as well as lent money to the government. |
Vocabulary List – Unit 2 Vocabulary Assignment Name _______________________________
Term | Date? What is it? | Why is it important? |
---|---|---|
Roger B. Taney | 5th Chief Justice of the US | |
Barbary Pirates | mainly Muslim pirates and privateers who operated from the Barbary states | |
Cotton Gin | A machine that removes seeds from cotton fibers → increase in cotton production | |
Embargo Act | Outlawed trade between America and any foreign port | Closed off our economy → led to further conflict with Britain |
Missouri Compromise | half free half slave | |
Louisiana Purchase | Bought the midwest from France | |
Marbury v. Madison | Judicial review → has the power to interpret laws and decide if they violate the constitution | |
Market Revolution | Transforming American Business and Global Trade | |
2nd Great Awakening | Religious + reformation | |
Battle of Tippecanoe | Fought over the white expansion of the Indian territory | |
Deism | Deusts accepted the existence of God, but considered him a remote being that after creating the universe, withdrew from involvement with the human race. | |
John Marshall | -established the court's power through landmark decisions (Marbury v Madison, etc.) | |
Lewis and Clark | Went on expeditions to explore the west of the US → after the LP | |
McCulloch v. Maryland | upheld constitutionally of the natio nal bank using an “elastic clause” | |
Battle of New Orleans | Part of War of 1812 → The British tried to take NO | |
Hartford Convention | Convention where the Federalist Party dissolved | |
Henry Clay | The “Great Compromiser” | |
Treaty of Ghent | Treaty between GB and USA ended the war of 1812 | |
Gibbons v. Ogden | Federal government holds the authority to regulate interstate commerce. | |
Monroe Doctrine | A policy that furthers European colonization of the West is considered hostile. | |
Wildcat/Pet Banks | Financial institutions that sprang up int he West and were involved in risky land speculation on the frontier. | |
Tariff of Abominations | raised taxes on imported manufactured goods as to reduce foreign competition with American manufacturing | |
John C. Calhoun | The senate's most prominent state’s rights advocate | |
Spoils System | The political tactic of employing and promoting civil servants who are the supporters and friends of the group in power to office. | |
Nullification Crisis | Showdown between president Andrew Jackson and the South Carolina legislature over former attempts to declare null and void of Federal Tariffs | |
Indian Removal Act | The forcible removal of Indians from their land | |
Worcester v. Georgia | states did not have the right to impose regulations on Native American land. | |
Frederick Douglass | African American abolitionist | |
Hartford Convention | A series of meetings in which New Englad federalists discussed their complaints and and wrongs that they felt had been done → opposed the war of 1812 | |
Erie Canal | An artificial waterway connected the Hudson river with lake Erie | The first great westward movement |
Nicholas Biddle | President of the second national bank. | |
Nativism | The policy of protecting native-born inhabitants | |
Know-Nothings | A 19th-century political party that opposed immigrants in the US and those who followed the Catholic faith | |
Nat Turner | Slave from VA that led a group of slaves to kill slaveholders and their families | |
Cyrus McCormick | Invented the mechanical reaver → made farming more efficient | |
Susan B. Anthony | A leader in the woman suffrage movement | |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Organized the first demand for woman suffrage in the US | |
Dorothea Dix | A pioneer in the movement to improve conditions for the mentally ill | |
Harriet Beecher Stowe | Wrote the abolitionist book → encouraged people to stand against slavery | |
Henry David Thoreau | Henry David Thoreau was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist | |
Hudson River School | 19th century art movement focused on nature and inspired by romanticism | |
Charles Grandison Finney | Charles Grandison Finney was an American Presbyterian minister and leader in the Second Great Awakening in the United States | |
Horace Mann | Criticized the educational system of the US | |
William Henry Harrison | -shortest presidency -served in the indian wars, war of 1812. | |
Seneca Falls Conference | First women’s right convention | |
Mormons | a religious group who were followers of Joseph Smith | |
Dartmouth v. Woodward | States cannot interfere with the property rights and contracts of private businesses | e |
Bank of the U.S. | A central bank -private bank issued paper money, completed commercial transactions, and collected government tax revenues as well as lent money to the government. |