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| the officials in the executive branch of government |
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| act or statement that becomes a tradition |
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| political party led by Thomas Jeffereson |
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| republican uprising in France |
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| allowed the arrest and deportation of immigrants who criticized the federal government |
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| important leader of the Native American resistance |
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| the power to review decisions made by Congress and the President |
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| taking salors from their ships and forcing them into foreign service |
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| angry young politicians who wanted to start a new war with Britain |
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| a group of federal leaders heading themajor departments of the executive branch |
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| philosophy of limiting the federal government to powers explicitly granted by the Constitution |
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| a group of people who seek to win elections and hold public office |
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| roused public sentiment against France |
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| Virginia & Kentucky resolutions |
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| declared the Sedition Act unconstitutional |
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| policy that told European nations not to interfere with countries in the WEstern Hemisphere |
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| money needed to build factories |
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| groups of workers who come together to work toward common goals |
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| glorification of the nation |
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| members of a new political party who wanted to form a strong national government |
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| a road on which the user had to pay a toll |
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| identical components that can be used in place of one another |
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| people against immigration |
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| a machine that made it easy to separate seeds from fibers |
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| a closed meeting of party members for the purpose of choosing a candidate |
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| rewarding party loyalty with political jobs |
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| group focused on gaining rights for women |
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| agreement not to allow speaking on a subject |
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| philosophers who wanted people to learn through nature |
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| groups that tried to be perfect |
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| group that worked against slavery |
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| preachers who wanted to reenergize religion |
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| a style of worship that emphasized strong emotions |
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| effort to establish tax-supported education |
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| the idea that prisons should make criminals feel sorrow for their crimes, not just punish them |
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| effort to end alcohol abuse |
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| a term for a former slave |
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| culture in which inheritance follows the femaile line |
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| 80,000 people who traveled to the West in search of riches |
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| belief that God planned for the US to won most of North Amreica |
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| early route to the Pacific Northwest |
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| people who favored territorial growth of the US |
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| independent control over one's affairs |
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| using pans and shovels to harvest gold flecks from sand |
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| transferred ownership of land in southern Arizona from Mexico to US |
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| law governing runaway slaves |
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| party formed in 1854 that opposed slavery |
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| Confederate States of America |
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| group of seven southern staes that seceded from the Union |
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| place where Confederate troops opened fire on Union troops |
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| proposed law that prohibited slavery inany lands won fromMexico |
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| legislation based on Henry Clay's proposal for concessions by both the North and the South |
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| the state statutes that nullified the Fugitive Slave Act |
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| an informal network of abolitionist that helped fugitive slaves |
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| nullified the Missouri Compromise by allowing slavery to spread in areas that had been free |
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| the characterization of violent outbreaks in 1856 that ocurred in and around Lawrence, Kansas |
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| the site where John Brown attempted to seize the federal arsenal |
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| proposed constitutional amendment that allowed slavery in Western territories south of the Missouri Compromise |
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| preventing vessels from entering or leaving a port |
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| states that allowed slavery, but did not join the confederacy |
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| a battle in the south where nearly 25000 Union and Confederate soldiers were killed or wounded |
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| a tax that was used to help pay for military supplies |
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| biggest source of wartime funds |
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| made western land available at very low cost to those who would farm it |
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| a draft that was instituted to meet the unending demand for fresh troops |
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| constitutional right that protects a person from being held in jail without being charged with a specific crim |
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| Emancipation Proclamation |
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| a military decree that feed all enslaved people in states still in rebellion |
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| mandated that black soldiers be accepted into the military |
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| a military tactic in which an army surrounds, bombards, and cuts off all supplies to an enemy position in order to force its surrender |
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| a strategy which involves striking civilian as well as military targets |
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| an act that outlawed slavery |
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| gave money from the sale of public lands to states for the establishment of universitties that taught agriculture and mechanical arts |
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