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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| The Liberator | Radical abolitionist newspaper launched by William Lloyd Garrison in 1831. Through the Liberator, Garrison called for immediate, uncompensated emancipation of enslaved people. |
| Liberty Party | Antislavery political party formed in 1840. The Liberty Party, along with the Free-Soil Party, helped place slavery at the center of national political debates. |
| Louisiana Purchase | U.S. government's 1803 purchase from France of the vast territory stretching from the Mississippi River to the rocky Mountains and from New Orleans to present-day Montana, doubling the size of the nation. |
| Marbury v. Madison | 1803 Supreme Court decision that established the authority of the Supreme Court to rule on the constitutionality of federal laws. |
| market revolution | Innovations in agriculture, industry, communication, and transportation in the early 1800s that fueled increased efficiency and productivity and linked northern industry with western farms and southern plantations. |
| McCulloch v. Maryland | 1819 Supreme Court decision that reinforced the federal government's ability to employ an expansive understanding of the implied powers clause of the Constitution/ |
| Missouri Compromise | 1820 act that allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine to enter as a free state and established the southern border of Missouri as the boundary between slave and free states throughout Louisiana Territory. |
| Monroe Doctrine | Assertion by Pres. James Monroe in 1823 that the Western Hemisphere was part of the US sphere of influence. Although the United States lacked the power to back up this claim, it signaled an intention to challenge Europeans for authority in the Americas |
| multiplier effect | The diverse changes spurred by a single invention, including other inventions is spawns and the broader economic, social, and political transformations it fuels. |