Work, Exchange, & Tech.
The invention of the ___________ in 1793 changed slavery in the US forever.
cotton gin
BONUS
What is the name of the inventor?
Which political party was created out of opposition to Andrew Jackson and his perceived abuses of presidential power?
the Whigs
What did the Indian Removal Act of 1830 state?
It forced Native Americans east of the Mississippi River to relocate to the “Indian Territory”, the present-day state of Oklahoma.
What region of the US focused primarily on industrialization?
The north/northeast
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Susan B. Anthony were leaders of the women's suffrage movement and helped organize this meeting in New York.
Seneca Falls Convention
Conceived by Henry Clay, what included a tariff to protect American manufacturing, a second national bank, and federally funded infrastructure to link the regions together?
The American System.
What was the theory that states can ignore and deem void certain federal laws?
nullification
What unofficial but implied reason did Andrew Jackson have for moving American Indian Tribes out of the southeast?
To make room for more cotton plantations.
What Massachusetts town employed young women from farm families in textile mills to reduce labor costs?
Lowell
What was the Declaration of Sentiments?
A document modeled on the Declaration of Independence, which opened with the phrase “All men and women are created equal.”
How was the north complicit (ok with) slave labor?
Its booming textile industry relied heavily on slave-produced cotton.
Which Supreme Court case established judicial review?
Marbury v Madison
The United States produced 80% percent of England's ____________.
cotton
Your average southerner owned how many enslaved people?
0
What was the 19th century religious movement that developed as a response to increased rationality and technology that claimed by improving yourself, you could improve society?
The Second Great Awakening
BONUS
Where did it take place?
How did the invention of national roads, steamboats, railroads, and canals affect the economy in the United States?
It allowed regions to become more interconnected, therefore allowing them to become more specialized. They were often funded by the government, so raised taxes. It increased western settlement.
What was the Missouri Compromise, and why was it created?
The Missouri Compromise was created to keep the balance of free and slave states in the union. It added Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. Additionally, it made a line through the Louisiana territory above which slavery was forever prohibited.
What was potentially hypocritical about Jefferson's purchase of Louisiana from France?
It contradicted his previously stated belief in a strict interpretation of the Constitution, making the purchase seem like an overreach of presidential power by someone who typically advocated for limited government authority.
European immigrants to the United States tended to settle in these locations in order to find employment.
Cities, specifically in the north.
While religious changes in the North and West bolstered this reform movement, wealthy planters in the South developed justifications based in religion for why it was unnecessary or even wrong.
Abolition
In your own words, what was the Market Revolution?
A period in the early 19th century where the economy shifted from a largely agrarian, self-sufficient system to a more industrialized, market-based one, driven by new technologies like the steam engine, causing major social and economic changes across the country.
How did participation in democracy expand in the mid 1800s?
Property requirements were dropped, expanding white male suffrage.
What was the Monroe Doctrine, and what did it state?
The Monroe Doctrine was a foreign policy devised by President James Munroe. It stated European countries couldn't start any new colonies in North or South America.
How did the invention of national roads, steamboats, railroads, and canals affect regional differences in the United States?
It allowed regions to become more specialized, connected the north more to the mid-west, and in turn increased sectional differences in the US (the north more industrialized, the south more dependent on slave labor).
What social idea developed in reaction to women's expanded role in the workforce, and what did it state?
Cult of Domesticity - Women were supposed to inhabit the private sphere, running the household and production of food (including servants), rearing the children, and taking care of the husband