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Trail of Tears
a period of major industrialization and innovation that took place during the late 1700s and early 1800s -
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Second Great Awakening
a Protestant religious revival during the early 19th century in the United States. The movement began around 1790, gained momentum by 1800 and, after 1820, membership rose rapidly among Baptist and Methodist congregations whose preachers led the movement. -
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Market Revolution
a historical model which argues that there was a drastic change of the economy that disoriented and coordinated all aspects of the market economy in line with both nations and the world. -
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Transportation Revolution
Construction of roads, canals, and railroads led to the expansion of markets, facilitated the movement of peoples, and altered the physical landscape. -
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Indian removal act
the forced relocation during the 1830s of Eastern Woodlands Indians of the Southeast region of the United States (including Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole, among other nations) to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River -
McCormick Reaper
a mechanical horse-drawn reaping machine invented by Cyrus McCormick in 1831, revolutionary