Geography
Main Economy in the north, involves mass production and use of immigrant work
What is Manufacturing?
This federation was a combination of several other unions. It represented higher wages, lower work hours, and the safety of employees
What is the American Federation of Labor?
Creator of Manifest Destiny, and led America into the Mexican war in which America seized California and Texas
Who Is James K. Polk?
A treaty between Britain and America to determining the lateral line of northern Oregon
What is the Oregon Treaty?
This boom in the mid 1800s involved people moving to California by the masses where many illegal things happened as a result from it.
What is the Gold Rush?
Main economy in the south and the west with many small scale operations and few large operations in those areas
What is Farming?
This tragedy put on by the Knights of Labor resulted in the deaths of 11 people. This riot was used to discredit and remove the Knights of Labor
A doctrine in which the status of slavery in the territory would be chosen by the people through a vote rather than the government
What is Popular Sovereignty?
In this war John C Fremont earned respect because of various victories in the south west, it was ended with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
What is the Mexican War?
This act excluded a certain minority from migrating to America. This group offered cheap labor for dangerous jobs and which made many white westerners mad because they could compete
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
In this region of America the temperature was hat and miserable, the labor consisted of long hours in the sun without much break
What is the South?
This Act was used to regulate the price discrimination in the railroad industry, with rebates and trusts
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
This political party was based off of anti slavery. The party didn't want to get rid of slavery but prevent further expansion. In the end in was supplanted by the Republicans
What is the Free Soil Party?
This amendment that would ban slavery in all western land acquired from Mexico. Although passes in the House of Representatives several times it was defeated on each occasion in the senate
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
This ordinance sold land to people to help build the economy of the government. It also declared the amount of people needed in a territory to become a state(60,000).
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
The soil in the north was like this, preventing agriculture to be an economy their
What is Rocky?
This act declared that every contract in restraint of the Interstate Commerce Act to result in that company being federally persecuted.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This man was the opposition to Lincoln in his first term election. He introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act and was largely in support of Popular Sovereignty
Who is Stephen Douglass?
This battle with Britain kickstarted the Revolutionary war. The towns in this battle were saved to due Paul Revere riding through the night screaming "The British are Coming!"
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord
This rebellion lead by farmers went to stop the courts from seizing land and enacting debt collection. Because of this rebellion political leaders wanted to strengthen the national government to be able to take care of such uprisings
What is the Shay's Rebellion
With the acquisition of California and the completion of the transcontinental railroad, America became a two _____ economy
What is Ocean?
This plan stated that the federal government should assume state debts, establish a national bank, and establish credit with other countries
What is Alexander Hamilton's Financial Plan?
This bill, proposed by Henry Clay. It involved many different compromises to keep both the north and south happy at the time of expansion of land in the U.S.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This treaty cemented the colonies victory in the Revolutionary War.
What is the Treaty of Paris 1783?
This company was a joint stock company put together to escape King James. It was lead by John Winthrop and was well organized as unlike other first year colonies they weren't plagued with infection and hunger.
What is the Massachusetts Bay Company?