This movement, founded by Horace Mann, wanted children of all backgrounds to go to public schools together in order to learn to work together.
What is the common school movement?
100
In 1803, Robert Fulton introduced this type of new transportation to America, which allowed for people to trade goods more quickly and cheaply.
What is the steamboat?
100
This was the term for Americans thinking it was their "obvious future" to expand their country west to the Pacific Ocean.
What is manifest destiny?
100
This is the name of the network of abolitionists who helped escaped slaves hide and move from the south to freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
100
This territory erupted into Civil War between pro-slavery and anti-slavery supporters, causing a lot of bloodshed.
What is Kansas? (or Bleeding Kansas)
200
This was the movement that encouraged people not to drink hard alcohol because it led to family violence, crimes, and poverty.
What is temperance?
200
Even though the lifestyle was difficult, one of the best paying jobs available to young, unmarried women was working at one of these.
What is a mill?
200
This is the land that Mexico gave to the United States for $15 million after the Mexican-American War.
What is the Mexican Cession?
200
Nat Turner led a famous one of these, which were the white slave owners' biggest fear.
What are slave rebellions? (or rebellions)
200
The Compromise of 1850 made a stronger Fugitive Slave law. In exchange, this territory was admitted to the Union as a free state.
What is California?
300
These city apartment buildings were usually dirty, unsafe, and overcrowded. For the most part, immigrants lived in them.
What are tenements?
300
This new technology developed by Samuel Morse, helped improve communication over the United States.
What is the telegraph?
300
He was the popular 11th President who promised to annex Texas and Oregon. He was President during the Mexican-American War.
What is James K. Polk?
300
He was a former slave who taught himself how to read and write and later published a famous autobiography.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
300
This term means giving political power directly to the people. In this era, it meant letting the people living in the new territories decide whether they wanted to allow slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
400
This religious movement caused many people (especially African Americans and women) to convert to Christianity. It emphasized emotions in a person's religious experience.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
400
Eli Whitney invented this machine which separated the seeds from the cotton, allowing cotton production to skyrocket in the south.
What is the cotton gin?
400
This was a law proposed during the Mexican-American War that would have banned slavery in all territories gained from the war. The southern states blocked it from passing in the Senate.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
400
The American Colonization Society was an abolitionist group that had this radical idea for what to do with freed slaves.
What is start a colony of freed slaves in Africa? (or send them to Africa)
400
He was a slave who sued for his freedom in the Supreme Court. He lost when the Supreme Court declared slaves had no right to sue, all slaves were property, and Congress could not ban slavery in federal territories.
Who is Dred Scott?
500
In 1848, this was the first public meeting about women's rights in the United States.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
500
These groups were formed in order to negotiate for higher wages and better working conditions for all workers. Many employers avoided hiring workers who belonged to one of these groups.
What are unions?
500
He was the General who originally led the American troops during the Mexican-American War. He later became the 12th President of the United States.
Who is Zachary Taylor?
500
He was the editor of the Liberator and one of the leading abolitionists in the Antebellum era.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
500
He was a Senator from Kentucky who was the author of both the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850.