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- African American woman who amassed a fortune in New Orleans by retailing imported goods
- System in which enslaved people were organized into work gangs that labored from sunup to sundown
- This man began work on the telegraph in 1832 and developed a Code for sending messages
- The growth of river travel and the success of this Canal spurred a wave of building throughout the country
- This man rose from slavery to become perhaps the most prominent leader of antislavery movement
- Even though industry and cities expanded in the Northeast during the first half of the nineteenth century, this remained the country's leading economic activity
- Organized the first major slave uprising in the United States occurred in 1800
- The Kentucky Resolutions advanced this theory. It stated that if the federal government passed an unconstitutional law, the states had the right to nullify the la, or declare it unconstitutional
- Document that tried to resolve the growing disagreement between Northern and Southern states over the issue of slavery
- The election of 1828 pitted Andrew Jackson vs. this man
- One of Jefferson's strongest beliefs was that a republic could only survive if the people owned what?
- This war was the second major clash between the United States and Britain in North America
- This battle made General Andrew Jackson a national hero
- In 1807 Robert Fulton stunned the nation when his steamboat chugged 150 miles up the Hudson River from New York City to Albany in just 32 hours. What was its name?
- What impacted the south from continuing fighting in the war?
- Invented the cotton gin and also popularized the concept of interchangeable parts
- expedition (1805 Zebulon Pike) that provided Americans with a detailed description of the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains
- This treaty granted the United States the right to navigate the Mississippi and to deposit goods at the port of New Orleans
- A young lawyer who was held aboard a British ship during the shelling of Fort McHenry. Elated to see the American flag still flying above the fort at dawn, he scribbled a poem about the battle that would later become the National Anthem of the United States
- The supreme court under John Marshall established this very important power. It permitted the Supreme Court to review and determine if a law passed by Congress is constitutional or not