Vocabulary
Geographical
Political
Economic
Social
Final Question
100
the official end to the practice of slavery
What is abolition?
100
This purchase from France doubled the size of the Unite States overnight.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
100
Name of president who was a planter, judge, senator, and military hero; put his supporters into government positions.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
100
He invented the steel-tipped plow, which drastically reduced the labor required to plow a field.
Who is John Deere?
100
They were an early American educator, who believed that free, public education would strengthen democracy and help young people escape poverty.
Who is Horace Mann?
200
invented by Eli Whitney in 1793, a machine that removes the seeds from cotton
What is the cotton gin?
200
This city is known as the "Gateway to the West."
What is St. Louis?
200
The right to vote
What is suffrage?
200
Who did Francis Cabot Lowell hire to work on his cotton mill?
What are young women from local farms?
200
Their reform efforts brought about substantial change in the penal system and in mental health care across the United States.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
300
one of the two major U.S. political parties; founded in 1828 by Andrew Jackson to support a decentralized government and states' rights
What is the Democratic Party?
300
a law passed by Congress in 1830 to authorize the forced resettlement of Indigenous groups living east of the Mississippi River in an area west of the Mississippi known as Indian Territory (later to become Oklahoma)
What is Indian Removal Act?
300
the practice of giving appointed positions in government to people loyal to the party in power
What is the spoils system?
300
a type of economy in which resources are used for purposes established by long-standing custom and goods are bartered or informally exchanged
What is the traditional economy?
300
From about 1795 to 1835, a period of renewed religious fervor among Christians in the United States
What was the Second Great Awakening?
400
The transformation from producing goods by hand to producing goods by machine
What is industrialization?
400
This party wanted a small central government with limited powers
What is the Democratic-Republican Party?
400
This made voting more honest and less intimidating.
What are secret paper ballots?
400
a manufacturing system in which products are created on a large scale by using machines in factories, rather than by individuals
What is the factory system?
400
held on July 19 and 20, 1848, the gathering of supporters of women's rights that launched the women's suffrage movement
What was the Seneca Falls Convention?
500
The belief, held by many Americans in the 1840s, that the United States was destined to spread across the North American continent and beyond
What is Manifest Destiny?
500
What event made clear that federal law would be enforced?
What was the Whiskey Rebellion?
500
the act of making something legally invalid; crisis faced by Andrew Jackson and South Carolina over tariffs.
What was the Nullification Crisis; what is nullification?
500
The introduction of the steamboat made this easier when navigating waterways.
What is travelling upstream?
500
A formerly enslaved man whose autobiography recounted his own struggle for freedom. His personal story and his dynamic stage presence made him a powerful spokesman for abolition.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
1000
Many Americans disagreed with this since it was too much land to govern and the Constitution did not explicitly give permission.
What was the Louisiana Purchase?