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What was the primary economic focus of the Northeast during the Antebellum period?
Industry /especially textiles and metal goods
This is the economic basis of the Southern Region.
Agriculture: Cash Crops (Tobacco, rice, cotton)
An impact of this invention made slavery more profitable.
Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin
Other than a few cities like New Orleans or Charleston, the Southern Region is this meaning countryside.
Rural
Name the author and the book that sold as many copies as the Bible the year it came out and encouraged many to join the abolition movement.
Harriett Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
Name one notable religious group in the Northeast during this time that was involved in reform movements?
Quakers / Shakers = nickname
This region has a lot of immigration in the Antebellum era mainly from Ireland and Germany.
Northeast
This describes the level of infrastructure in the Antebellum South.
Sparse: something that shows there is limited infrastructure.
Most Catholics in the Antebellum US lived in this region.
The Northeast
This was the first meeting to call for women's suffrage organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucretia Mott.
The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
This reform movement was strongest in the Northeast and dedicated to ending slavery.
Abolition
This describes the level of infrastructure in the Northeast.
dense: anything that means it is very well connected by infrastructure
The issue of slavery kept coming up as the United States did this.
Expanded
This religious group moved west out of US territory due to persecution for their religious beliefs.
Mormons
This document was the model for the Declaration of Sentiments signed at the Seneca Falls Convention?
The Declaration of Independence
What is the economic basis for the Midwest?
commercial agriculture mainly grains (corn, wheat) & livestock
This is a major urban city in the Northeast.
NYC, Boston, Philadelphia
This is a major urban center in the Midwest
Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati
This movement would open the door for other reform movements in the Antebellum US.
The 2nd Great Awakening
This was William Lloyd Garrison's abolitionist newspaper.
The Liberator
This was the cause of the Mexican American War.
A land dispute after the Annexation of Texas.
This treaty ended the Mexican American War.
The Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo
This is the main method of moving people and goods in the Antebellum South.
Mississippi River
This is the political problem in the Congress that arose from the territorial expansion of the US.
Keeping the balance of power in the federal government between the slaveholding states and the free states.
What theory of John Locke's was used in the Declaration of Sentiments?
Social Contract Theory