Vocab
Intense loyalty to the interest of a region rather than to the nation
What is sectionalism?
A slave who sued for his freedom after living in a free state.
Who was Dred Scott?
West Virginia
What was the New Union State?
Women and children worked for long hours with little pay in dangerous working conditions
What is Factory Life?
The belief that Americans were destined to rule the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean
What is Manifest Destiny?
He invented the cotton gin
Who was Eli Whitney?
Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware
What are the Border States?
lack of money, crime, river crossing, sickness, lack of food, weather, diseases, transportation
What are struggles on the Oregon Trail?
Required that the Northern States forcibly returned escaped slaves to their owners
What is Fugitive Slave Law?
A radical abolitionist who attempted to lead a slave revolt by capturing an armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia and distributing the weapons to slaves
Who was John Brown?
Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Florida, Mississippi, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Virginia
What are the Southern States?
The law that enabled voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether or not they should allow slavery
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The process of making large quantities of a product quickly and cheaply
What is Mass Production?
The president of the Confederate States
Who was Jefferson Davis?
Oregon, California, Kansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, Maine, Connecticut, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Indiana
What are the Northern States?
a series of violent fights between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces in Kansas who had moved to Kansas to try to influence the decision of whether or not Kansas would be a slave state or a free state
What is Bleeding Kansas
An increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements
What is urbanization?
Who was Harriet Beechman Stowe?
Washington, Dakota, Nebraska, Indian, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada
What are Territories?
Died in the same month that Rosa Parks was born
Who was Harriet Tubman?