Westward Expansion
What is the significant of the Louisiana Purchase
Doubled the size of the country, Allow the U.S. the Mississippi River.
What was the effect of steamboats?
Increase trade, made transportation quicker and cheaper
The Cotton Gin increased what?
Hint: Economically
The demand for cotton
Missouri Compromise
Made Missouri a Slave state, Made Maine a free state
Balance of power
Worcester vs. Georgia
Supreme Court determined Cherokees could keep their lands
Cause of the Mexican American War
Texas Annexation; The dispute over which river was the actual border
Industrial Revolution led to an increase in...
More Manufacturing (Factories)
Better transportation
Better Communication
Urbanization (large cities)
Mass production
Form of communication, created during the Industrial Revolution
Telegraph
Britain
Northwest Territory
Turns territory into states
The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo ended what war?
The Mexican-American War
Which immigrants built the railroad
Irish & Chinese
Man Made waterway connecting Lake Erie to Hudson River
Erie Canal
Abolition means...
End Slavery
What is Nullification...
states believe federal law is unconstitutional
What treaty led to the annexation of Florida?
Adams-Onis Treaty
Interchangeable Parts
factory production; assembly lines; allowed for mass production
The Cotton Gin increased what?
Hint: Socially
Slavery
What does temperance mean...
reducing the amount of alcohol you drink
Gibbons vs. Ogden
Supreme Court: Federal Gov controls interstate Commence (State to state trade)
What is Manifest Destiny...
Is the belief that the United States control all the lands from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean
Factory System did what...
producing goods by machine on a mass scale in a
factory
Most slaves lived in which region?
(North, East, West, South)
South
Women's Suffrage means...
Women’s Suffrage- women’s right to vote
What did Dorothea Dix do?
Helped with prison reform; she wrote to the state legislature about issues in the conditions of prisons