Slavery in America
Key invention that allowed slaves to process cotton much faster than previously possible.
What was the Cotton Gin?
This was the name given to the expedition led by Lewis and Clark.
What was Corps of Discovery?
The name for the trail to Oklahoma in which many natives died due to poor conditions.
What was the Trail of Tears?
The line that divided North and South before the Civil War.
This removed Indians from southern states and put them on reservations in the Midwest.
What was the Indian Removal Act?
Region with dark, fertile soil, perfect for growing cotton on large plantations.
The purchase of land to expand the United States west.
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
The battle that ended the Great Sioux War once and for all.
What was the Battle of Wounded Knee?
The act that set future boundaries for slave states out west.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
This system that rewarded campaign worker with government jobs to the political party winning an election.
What was the Spoils System?
Early slave rebellion focused in Louisiana where many slaves were killed.
What was the Louisiana Slave Revolt of 1811?
The country whcih previously owned the land bought in the Louisiana pruchase?
What was the Battle of Little Bighorn?
The crisis where states ignored federal powers and orders.
What was the nullification crisis?
The revolution that boomed after the Civil War with an economy based around the factors system and improved transportation.
What was the industrial revolution?
Considered the greatest of the Black abolitionists prior to the Civil War.
Who was Frederick Douglas?
This allowed Missouri and Maine to join the United Sates while also balancing the number of free and slave States.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
This act supported by Andrew Jackson to steal land from natives and move them to Oklahoma.
The hostile voting conditions after Kansas and Nebraska were granted self determination.
What was Bleeding Kansas?
The religious movement in which individual responsibility for seeking salvation was emphasized along with the need for personal and social improvement.
What was the Second Great Awakening?
Leader of the 1831 slave uprising in Southampton, Virginia?
Nat Turner
Know as the transcontinental treaty, it defined the western limits of the Louisiana Purchase.
What was the Adams-Onis treaty?
The Supreme Court decision that ruled the Cherokee had a right to their land but were not a foreign state in the sense of the Constitution.
What was Cherokee v. Gregoria?
The party founded by Andrew Jackson with the key belief for states rights.
What was the Democratic Party?
Jackson’s group of unofficial advisors consisting of newspaper editors and Democratic leaders that met to discuss current issues.
What was the Kitchen Cabinet?