Early America
A settlement in a new territory that keeps close ties to its "mother country"
What is a colony?
This 19th century belief held that the United States was destined by God to expand across the entire continent of North America
What is Manifest Destiny?
A secret, organized network of people who helped enslaved individuals escape to freedom in the North, Canada, or Mexico
What was the Underground Railroad?
This farming style is why slavery was seen as necessary to the southern economy.
What are plantations?
This farming system had freedmen working on land owned by someone else in exchange for a share of crops, which often trapped them in a cycle of debt.
What is sharecropping?
The global transfer of foods, plants, animals, and diseases between the Old World and New World
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This invention by Eli Whitney revolutionized the Southern economy but drastically increased the demand for enslaved labor
What is the Cotton Gin?
This strict component of the compromise of 1850 required all citizens, even in free states, to assist in capturing runaway slaves
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This historical development occurred in 1861. Several states wrote declarations; such as Mississippi, who wrote that their position was "thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery".
What is the secession of southern states?
This major historical event took place on April 14th, 1865, inside Ford's Theater in Washington D.C.
What is the assassination of Abraham Lincoln?
American colonists who remained loyal to the British King and did not want independence
Who are Loyalists?
These two major transportation innovations allowed products and resources to be shipped faster and cheaper across the country
What are steam engines and canals?
This was the primary purpose behind massive political deals like the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850
What is: keeping balanced representation in Congress or reducing tensions between slave states and free states?
This military strategy caused a lot of damage to the South but is credited as the reason the Union won the war
What is Grant's "Total War" Plan?
What are inflation and debt?
This branch of government is responsible for writing and voting on laws.
What is the legislative?
Crowded, dirty living conditions that drove people to move west were a result of this growth.
What is urbanization?
The Grimke Sisters, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Beecher Stowe all did this as abolitionists to promote their anti-slavery message
What is published writing?
This historical development was the last straw for southern states who seceded from the Union.
What is the election of Abraham Lincoln?
The rise of segregation and racist hate groups like the KKK after the Civil War are often used to support this argument.
What is "Reconstruction was a failure"?
These are specific constitutional powers given to the president of the United States. (name 1)
What are enforcing laws, serving as chief of the military, signing/vetoing bills, or making treaties?
This mass-production textile factory system in Massachusetts was a major milestone in American industrialization, famously employing young women
What is a Lowell Mill?
This key phrase appears in political cartoon, representing the economic and political power of the south's most important cash crop during the 19th century.
What is "Cotton is King"?
This historical development escalated the violence between pro- and anti-slavery Americans on the frontier.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
These amendments are often used to support the claim that Reconstruction was a success (name 1).
What are the 13th (abolition of slavery), 14th (birthright citizenship and equal protection clause), and 15th (voting rights for all men) amendments?