Impressment

Policy of seizing people or

property for military of public

service

War Hawks

Members of Congress who pushed for war against Great

Britain

National Road

built by the federal government in the

early 1800s,extended from Maryland to

Illinois

Erie Canal

Completed in 1825, connected the Great Lakes to the Hudson

River

Industrial Revolution

Shift from manual labor

to mechanized work

Interchangeable Parts

Identical components that can be used in place of one

another

Nationalism

Loyalty and devotion to

one’s country

Adams-Onis Treaty

In 1819, Spain ceded Florida

to the US

Monroe Doctrine

Foreign policy established in 1823

that discouraged European intervention

in the Western Hemisphere

Spoils System

Practice of the political party in power giving

jobs and appointments to its supporters,

rather that to people based on their qualifications

Indian Removal Act

Passed by Congress, it allowed the federal

government to negotiate land trades with Native Americans

in the Southeast.

Trail of Tears

Forced march of the Cherokee Indians to

move west of the Mississippi in the

1830s

Transcendentalist

People who follow the literary and

philosophical movement based on finding spiritual reality

through nature and consciousness of self

Utopian Community

Separate settlement

established with the goal of moral

perfection

Second Great Awakening

Religious revival movement in the

first half of the 1800s

Temperance Movement

Goal of the movement was to end alcohol abuse and the problems

created by it

Abolitionist Movement

Movement that sought an end to slavery

Suffrage

The right

to vote

Seneca Falls Convention

First women’s rights gathering

Manifest Destiny

Belief that the US would expand to

the Pacific Ocean and

beyond