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Industrial Revolution
The industrial revolution was a period of major industrialization that took place during the late 1700s and early 1800s. -
Cotton Gin
a machine for separating cotton from its seeds. -
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Manifest Destiny
the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable. -
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2nd Great Awakening
The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant religious revival movement during the early 19th century in the United States. -
Missouri Compromise
A settlement of a dispute between slave and free states, contained in several laws passed during 1820 and 1821. -
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Jackson Presidency
A general and political leader of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. As a general in the War of 1812, he defeated the British in the Battle of New Orleans. -
Nullification Crisis
The Nullification Crisis was a sectional crisis in 1832–33, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson, which involved a confrontation between South Carolina and the federal government. -
Indian Removal Act
The law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Indian tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their ancestral homelands.