Trade & Transportation
This type of improvement helped goods move faster across the country.
What is transportation improvements (internal improvements)?
People moving from rural areas to cities is called this.
What is urbanization?
This region wanted higher tariffs.
What is the North?
This compromise tried to reduce conflict by balancing slave and free states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The Union had more of this advantage over the South.
What is factories/industry/resources?
After the war, formerly enslaved people were known as this.
What are Freedmen?
Before railroads, goods were often transported using this type of infrastructure connecting waterways,
What are canals?
A job opportunity in a factory would be this type of factor.
What is a pull factor?
This region relied on enslaved labor for its economy.
What is the South?
This law forced citizens to help capture escaped slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
The South believed it could win because of this economic strength.
What is cotton (or agriculture)?
Many freedmen had to sign contracts to work land owned by others in this system.
What is sharecropping?
This innovation allowed travel from coast to coast by land for the first time.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Many immigrants settled in this region because of factory jobs.
What is the North (or Northeast)?
This disagreement focused on whether new territories would allow slavery.
What is the expansion of slavery?
This event involved violence between pro- and anti-slavery settlers.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
These states were important because they could have joined either side.
These groups used fear and violence to control African Americans.
What are white supremacy groups?
DAILY DOUBLE
Farmers benefited from new transportation because it allowed them to do this with their crops.
What is sell them in distant markets (increase trade/profit)?
This immigrant group often moved west after working in mining or railroads.
Who are Chinese immigrants?
DAILY DOUBLE
If a state believed it could ignore federal law, it supported this idea.
What is nullification?
This presidential election caused Southern states to panic.
What is the election of 1860 (Abraham Lincoln)?
DAILY DOUBLE
A main goal of the South was to gain recognition from these countries.
What are European nations (like Great Britain or France)?
This amendment ensured citizenship rights.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This region benefited most early from canals and roads due to industrial growth.
What is the Northeast?
DAILY DOUBLE
An example of a push factor from Europe in the 1800s would be this.
What is famine, poverty, or political unrest?
This term describes strong loyalty to one's region over the nation.
DAILY DOUBLE
This action by Southern states officially broke them away from the U.S.
What is secession?
This type of war involved citizens and resources, not just soldiers.
What is total war?
DAILY DOUBLE
Even though rights were granted, these laws were used to limit them in the South.