1. By: Kristina Rivera, Austin Caufield, Lauren Lattizori, Alexandria Rubbo, Anna Hester

3. Erie Canal was created to make transportation (mainly trade) easier Connected the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes New York became the richest city in the United states

4. Monroe Doctrine is a U.S. statement which, on December 2, 1823, stated that European powers couldn’t colonize or interfere with the newly independent states of the Americas. “If you mess with Latin America, you mess with US!”

6. Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin and Interchangeable parts The cotton gin Increased slavery Interchangeable parts for muskets (guns) made guns more advanced, easier, and faster to reload Started the industrial revolution

7. settlers going west saying it was “their destiny” taking religion, technology, democracy, transportation

8. Temperance movement: movement to get rid of angry drunks Abolitionism movement: abolish slavery (Frederick Douglass, Nat Turner) Public school: make more public schools/better public schools (Horace Mann)

9. July 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton held the first women's rights convention in America over 300 men and women came to the Seneca Falls conference to protest about women’s rights

10. Jacksonian’s believed that all white men should have the right to vote In 1820, the universal white male suffrage was formed Requirements to pay taxes were dropped by 1850

12. Nat Turner had slaves rebel against slave owners William Lloyd Garrison owned newspaper called “The Liberator” & published anti-slavery statements Frederick Douglass was freed slave who led the fight against slavery Grimke sisters wrote letters to Garrison to publish them about abolishing slavery

13. Compromise created 36’30 line Line said that any state above line was free, and any stated below line was slave Later repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act

14. Nullification crisis was during Andrew Jackson’s Presidency Created in 1832 to reduce tariffs John C. Calhoun supported states’ rights as more powerful than federal laws

15. War began over the annexation of Texas Lasted from 1846 to 1847 Wilmot Proviso said it would ban slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico

16. Compromise of 1850 was releasing tension between the United States and Mexico Compromise stated that the territory line separating the two countries would be the Rio Grande