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Industrial Reveloution
Machines started replacing hand tools. -
Factory System
Workers and machinery were brought together as a method of making goods in one place. Kids and women also had to work. Prices were lowerd and the company ownwers were ruthless with competion. -
Spinning Jenny
Spinning Jeny was a machine that could spin sevral threads at once. -
Laissez Faire
This was an idea the government should play a small role in economic affairs. -
Barbary Pirates
Pirate ships and crews from the North African states of Tripoli, Tunis, Morocco, and Algiers (the Barbary Coast) were causing trouble in th Mediterranean. Catching merchant ships and holding their crews hostage provided the rulers of these nations with wealth and naval power. -
Tecumseh
Tecumseh was an indian man and had a village. His village was attacked by colonials and then later Americans. -
George Washington Inauguration
George washington was inaugurated on this day. Inuaguration means to offically take oath of the presidents office. -
Suffrage
When women were granted the right to vote. -
Cotton Gin
There was a certain kind of cotton that took a while to seperate from the seeds and it was stick. Eli Whitney was encouraged to make a machine that would do this job instead of sing yor hands for faster satisfactation. This cotton was the cause of making the Cotton Gin. -
French Revolution
The French Reveloution became more and more violent. They beheaded the king and not long after the queen. Also ten's of thousands of French were executed. -
Santa Anna
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, the leading villain of Texas history, was born in Mexico on 21 February 1794. As a young military officer, he supported Emperor Agustin de Iturbide, and at one time courted the emperor's sister. -
Farewell Address
George Washington wrote a farewell address to advise Americans against becomming involved in European affairs. -
John Adams
John Adams became president this year and Thomas Jefferson became the vice president. -
Urbanization
Movement of the population from living on farms to living in
cities. -
Oregon Country
This was a term used for the region that contained Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana and Canada. -
Oregon Trail
This was a route to Oregon used by the wagon trains. -
Manifest Destiny
This was a Beleif that Americans had the right to spread across the continent. -
Santa Fe Trail
This was a route to Santa Fe that was used by traders. -
Immigration
In the late 1800s, people in many parts of the world decided to leave their homes and immigrate to the United States. Fleeing crop failure, land and job shortages, rising taxes, and famine, many came to the U. S. because it was perceived as the land of economic opportunity. -
Famine
A sociopolitical policy, especially in the United States in the 19th century, favoring the interests of established inhabitants over those of immigrants. -
Thomas Jefferson
After being Vice President Thomas Jefferson becomes President. -
Free Market
The free market was an economic system in wich goods and services were exchanges with little regulation. -
Louisanna Purchase
America purchased Louisanna from France, A year later in 1804 Thomas sent Lewis and Clark to Explore the land. -
Judical Review
Power of the supreme court to decide whether the acts of a president or laws passed by the congress are constitutional. -
Nationalism
Excessive pride in ones nation. -
War Hawks
Members of Congress from the south and west who called for war with Britian prior to the war of 1812 -
Tippecanoe
Harrison marched 1,000 soldiers against Prophets Town on the Tippecanoe Creek. Both sides suffered heavy losses in the battle of Tippecanoe. -
Fort Mchenry
Fort McHenry, in Baltimore, Maryland, is a star shaped fort best known for its role in the War of 1812 when it successfully defended Baltimore Harbor from an attack by the British navy in the Chesapeake Bay. -
The Battle of New Orleans
Battle between Brittish and Americans. American victory. -
Underground Railroad
This wasn't a real railroad, but it was a network of black and white abolitionists, they helped slaves escape to freedom in the north or canada. -
Lone Star Republic
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, the leading villain of Texas history, was born in Mexico on 21 February 1794. As a young military officer, he supported Emperor Agustin de Iturbide, and at one time courted the emperor's sister. -
Monroe Doctrine
President Monroe's foriegn policy statement warning European nations not to interfere with Latin America. -
Eli Whitney
Eli Whitney Invented the Cotton Gin. He was an American inventor, pioneer, mechanical engineer, and manufacturer. -
Spoil's System
The practice of rewarding supporters with government jobs. -
Trail of Tears
Cherokee indians were forced from Georgia to west Mississippi, thousands died. -
States Rights
The right of the states to limit the power of the federal government. -
Indian Removal Act
A law passed in 1830 that forced many indians to move west across the Mississippi River. -
Abolitionists
In 1831 a Boston, Massachusetts newspaper called The Liberator was published. The editor was an abolitionist named William Lloyd Garrison. Garrison used the newspaper to tell Congress and the world that slavery must be abolished. Many people agreed with Garrison. In 1833 Garrison and others formed the National Antislavery Society which published books and papers about slavery. -
Nullifacation
The state has the right to cancel a law they consider unconstantutional. -
Alamo
Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged Texans. -
Clipper Ships
Beginning in the late 1840's American shipbuilders started to build a new kind of merchant vessel - the Clipper ship. Several qualities set the clipper ship apart from others sailing ships. A clipper was technically a sailing ship with three masts on which sat a large expanse of square sails. It was designed to carry a small, highly profitable cargo over long distances at high speeds. -
Dred Scott
Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom in 1847. Ten years later, after a decade of appeals and court reversals, his case was finally brought before the United States Supreme Court. In what is perhaps the most infamous case in its history, the court decided that all people of African ancestry -- slaves as well as those who were free -- could never become citizens of the United States and therefore could not sue in federal court. -
Mexican Cession
Mexican territories such as California and New Mexico were given to the United States. -
Dolley Madison
Dolley Madison was a very well known loved woman. She was first maried to a man named John Todd Jr. who died two years after they were married from yellow fever. She was left with a small son. Then she married James Madison. She helped at the White House when the President asked her help in receiving ladies, and presided at the first inaugural ball in Washington when her husband (James Madison) became Chief Executive in 1809. -
Franklin Pierce
Pierce, after serving in the Mexican War, was proposed by New Hampshire friends for the Presidential nomination in 1852. At the Democratic Convention, the delegates agreed easily enough upon a platform pledging undeviating support of the Compromise of 1850 and hostility to any efforts to agitate the slavery question. But they balloted 48 times and eliminated all the well-known candidates before nominating Pierce, a true "dark horse." -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the United States, so much in the latter case that the novel intensified the sectional conflict leading to the American Civil War. -
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman escaped slavery, then went back 19 times in the couarse of 10 years. She rescused more then 300 people. In 1856 slave owners had a reward of 40,000 dollars for her to be captured. Before she was married her name was Araminta Ross, but she changed her first name to Harriet after her mother, and her last name became Tubman because she married a man named John Tubman and took his last name. -
Secede
People were secedeing- which is to withdraw membership from a group. -
Slave Codes
A Slave Code booklet for Washington D.C., was published in 1862, only one month before Lincoln stopped slavery in the nation's capitol. More lenient than most states' slave codes, the District's code allowed slaves to hire themselves out and live apart from their masters. -
3rd term
From 1796-1940 no presidents had a third term. After George Washington didn't have a third term.
