Causes of Civil War
What term refers to the feeling of loyalty people felt to their region of the country; the North or the South?
What is sectionalism?
What Northern military strategy created a naval blockade of the of Southern ports?
What is the Anaconda Plan?
What amendment abolished slavery?
Thirteenth
What is the term for the American belief that it was our God-given right to expand Westward?
Manifest Destiny
What is one cause for the second industrial revolution?
1. Abundant natural resources
2. Free Enterprise/Capitalism/Market Economy
3. Laissez Faire
4. Legacy of the first Industrial Revolution
5. Economic boost from the Civil War
What were abolitionists like Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman against?
What is slavery?
What military document freed enslaved people in rebelling states?
What is the Emancipation Proclomation?
Freedmen's Bureau
What system relocated American Indians onto specific pieces of land?
Reservation System
What was the invention that produced steel much more efficiently?
Bessemer Process
What compromise added Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state?
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This Union victory over Confederate troops marked a turning point in the war.
What political party believed that the South should be harshly punished for leaving from the Union? They also believed African Americans should be granted full political equality.
Radical Republicans
This method of transportation connected the midwest to the West and made it easier for settlers to move westward and to receive supplies from the East.
Transcontinental railroad
What woman started a cosmetics company for African Americans?
Madam CJ Walker
What compromise implemented a harsher fugitive slave law?
What is the Compromise of 1850?
What is the event where General Sherman marched troops through Georgia to the coast destroying all Confederate sources of supply, burning farms, and tearing up railroad lines?
What is the March to the Sea?
What is the term for people who left the North and came down to the South after the Civil War?
What act promised settlers 160 acres of land in the West if they farmed it for 5 years?
Homestead Act
The industrialist who controlled steel production in the US.
Andrew Carnegie
What act repealed the Missouri Compromise by letting popular sovereignty decide the issue of slavery in two new states?
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Where did Confederate General Lee surrender to Union leader Grant?
Describe how sharecropping kept the workers in a cycle of debt
Landowners lent out land, tools, and seed to the sharecroppers in return for a share of the crops at the end of the farming season. After each harvest, the farm owners claimed the sharecroppers owed more than they really did. Therefore, sharecroppers could never 'pay up' in full and were stuck in a cycle of debt.
What act attempted to "Americanize" or assimilate indians into Western society?
The Dawes Act
The industrial process where the company controls all steps of production from the raw materials to the finished good.
Vertical integration