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Person who betrays his or her country.

Traitor

Communication device that sends electrical signals along a wire. The signals are decoded in to words using a code language

developed by Samuel Morse.

Telegraph

A 1773 law that let the British East India Co. bypass tea merchants

and sell directly to colonists.

Tea Act

Forced journey of Indians from Georgia to a region west of the Mississippi River

during which thousands of Indians

died.

Trail of Tears

Agreement at the Constitutional

Convention that said 3/5ths of slaves could

count toward population.

3/5ths Compromise

A tax on imports

Tariff

Colonial trade route between New

England, the West Indies and Africa.

Triangular Trade

Campaign against the sale and use of

alcohol.

Temperance Movement

1767 law that taxed glass, paper lead, paint and tea.

Townshend Acts

1828 tariff that favored the

manufacturing North but hurt farmers in

the South.

Tariff of Abominations

Not allowed by the Constitution.

Unconstitutional

Process of a populations shift from farms to cities.

Urbanization

Network of abolitionists who secretly helped slaves escape to

freedom.

Underground Railroad.

A novel written by Hariet Beecher Stowe to show the evils of

slavery and the injustices of the

Fugitive Slave Act.

Uncle Toms Cabin

Samuel Wilson supplied meat to the

American Army during the War of 1812. The barrels

were marked with US. What was Mr.

Wilson’s nick name?

Uncle Sam

To reject something like when a president

rejects a law.

Veto

British search warrant used to search

colonists without reason.

Writ of Assistance

1794 protest over a tax on all liquor made and sold in the United

States.

Whiskey Rebellion

Site of Colonial Army camp where they

suffered through a long hard winter.

Valley Forge

A 1797 French attempt to get a bribe from the US before the French would

discuss ending the process of seizing American ships.

XYZ Affair

President who told Europe that the

Western Hemisphere was off limits to

further colonization.

James Monroe

Leader of the American Navy during the

Revolutionary War who refused to surrender even though his ship

was sinking.

John Paul Jones

George Mason of Virginia refused to

sign the Constitution because it did not

include what?

Bill of Rights

The first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. He was a

staunch Federalist and presided over the

Marbury V Madison case.

John Marshall

Former slave who spoke against

slavery.

Frederick Douglass

Religious movement in the English the early colonies in 1700’s. It caused

many people to form new churches.

First GreatAwakening

Dynamic religious movement that swept

the country in the early 1800’s. It

stressed free will rather than

predestination.

Second Great Awakening

Movement to end slavery.

Abolition

This movement to ban the sale and consumption of

alcohol was led by a feeling that alcohol

was ruining the American family.

Temperance

This man led the movement to reform education in America.

Horace Mann