Nationalism and Expansion
Believing that your country is better than others.
What is nationalism?
Convincing people to end slavery.
What was the goal of the abolitionist movement?
She brought awareness to reform of mental health institutions and prisons.
Who is Dorthea Dix?
The property requirement to vote was eliminated.
What change expanded voting rights to all white men during the antebellum period?
Why the northeast had a high concentration of canals and roads by 1840.
What is that they were focused on industrialization?
Balancing the number of slave and free states.
What was the most important issue that arose in the U.S. as a result of westward expansion?
Attempts to resist slavery.
What are run away or fight back?
Women were encouraged to be religious, submissive, and focus on the home.
What was the cult of domesticity?
Who are Black men and women and white women?
Was focused on agriculture.
What is the South?
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Which country did the United States NOT gain a significant amount of land from?
What is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
Some people focused on returning to nature and a simple life.
What was one response to industrialization during the antebellum period?
As president he used his veto power and went against the will of congress so often some considered him as acting like a king.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
An invention that revolutionized the clothing industry.
What is the spinning jenny or cotton gin?
The desire to expand U.S. territory.
What was manifest destiny or Westward Expansion?
As blacksmiths, carpenters, household servants and cotton pickers among other professions.
What are some jobs enslaved people performed?
Mentally ill individuals were often institutionalized and mistreated.
How were the mentally ill treated during the antebellum period?
This removed many Native Americans from their Ancestral home in the southeastern United States
What is the Indian Removal Act?
The South had a rural, plantation economy, so canals and railroads were not as necessary.
Why did the northern U.S. have a heavier concentration of roads, canals, and railroads?
Writing a Declaration of Sentiments, organizing marches, sharing speeches and joining conventions.
What are some ways women fought for equal rights during the Antebellum period?