C12. Vocab

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Strong feeling of pride in one's country

Nationalism

Name given to the period after the war of 1812 marked by optimism, a geographically

Era of Good Feelings

Policy declared by President James Monroe warning Europeans nations not to interfere in the Western Hemisphere

Monroe Doctrine

Right to vote

Suffrage

Law passed in 1830 Forcing American Indians living in the southeast to be moved west of the Mississippi

Indian Removal Act

Forced march of 15,000 Cherokee from the southeastern United States to Indian territory in present-day Oklahoma in 1838

Trail of Tears

Period of important change from making goods by hand to making goods by machines in factories

Industrial Revolution

To make goods from raw materials

Manufacture

Use of scientific knowledge or new tools to make or do something

Technology

Machine invented by Eli Whitney that cleaned the seeds from cotton

Cotton Gin

Machine invented by Cyrus McCormick that could harvest wheat quickly

Mechanical Reaper

Human-made waterway

Canal

Change

Reform

Act of awakening or strengthen people's religious feelings

Revival

Moderation, usually in drinking alcohol

Temperance

Person who wants to abolish, or end, slavery

Abolitionist

First national convention on women's rights, organized by Lucretta Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Seneca Falls Convention