The Geography of the United States
The location of a place that is defined by where it is in relation to another place. For example, the country of Mexico is south of the United States.
What is relative location?
About 55 percent of white American children attended school in 1850. Among children of other races, the rate was less than this percent.
What is 5?
Laws passed by colonies and states to define slavery and explain the rights of slaves and their masters.
What are slave codes?
A tax on goods brought into or shipped out of a country.
What is a tariff?
This trail was 2,200 miles long, beginning in Independence, Missouri, and ending in Oregon City, Oregon.
What is the The Oregon Trail?
The third-largest country in the world measured by area.
What is the United States?
Amendment that granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
A secret organization that helped runaway slaves follow a network of escape routes that led to freedom in the North.
What is the Underground Railroad?
A system of private ownership and free exchange of goods and services.
What is capitalism?
Millions of these were killed as white settlers moved through the Great Plains. American Indians depended on them for food, clothing, tools, and weapons.
What are buffalo?
The community of plants and animals that lives in a given area.
What is an ecosystem?
A reform movement that worked to stop people from drinking alcohol.
What is the temperance movement?
An African American woman who escaped from slavery in 1849. She returned to the South many times to help dozens of other people escape slavery. During the Civil War, she worked for the Union army as a nurse, cook, and spy.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
A period when improvements in technology expanded manufacturing and led to a lot of economic changes.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
The American railroad, finished in 1869, that connected the East Coast to the West Coast — from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
A type of climate that experiences all four seasons and gets moderate amounts of rainfall.
What is temperate?
Worked to improve schools in the United States by arguing for free public education for all children. He served as a state official in Massachusetts and as a member of Congress.
Who is Horace Mann?
An African American who escaped slavery and became a prominent activist, author and public speaker. He became a leader in the abolitionist movement, which sought to end the practice of slavery, before and during the Civil War.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
An economic plan that used a tax on imported goods to pay for national improvements, such as roads. The plan also included a national bank.
What is the American System?
This act offered free land to settlers who moved to the Great Plains, regardless of race.
What is The Homestead Act?
The 5 themes of geography.
What is movement, region, human-environment interaction, location, place.
A popular American writer who wrote both fiction and nonfiction. His most famous works are the short stories "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
Who is Washington Irving?
An enslaved African American who led a rebellion in 1831 that killed more than 50 white people, the highest number of whites killed in any slave revolt. Close to 200 slaves were killed after the rebellion, including this leader himself.
Who is Nat Turner?
Politician behind the American System.
Who is Henry Clay?
In 1869, this state became the first state in the country to grant women full voting rights.
What is Wyoming?