Industrialization
What was the largest crop grown in the South?
cotton
This group of people immigrated to the United States to strike it rich at "Gold Mountain"
Chinese
The term for placing the needs of one section of the nation above the needs of the whole nation
sectionalism
The term for a freedom seeker escaping slavery on the Underground Railroad
passenger
station
This woman was arrested for demanding to vote in a presidential election
Susan B. Anthony
potato famine in Ireland
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Immigrants to the United States in the 19th century mainly settled in these largely populated areas that had larger opportunities for work.
cities
The term to describe something that forces a person to immigrate out of their homeland to a new country
Push factor
What war did sectionalism eventually lead to?
The Civil War
The name of the compromise created by Henry Clay that allowed Missouri to enter the Union as an enslaved state and Maine as a free state that set the 36'30' line to determine slavery in the future
Missouri Compromise
The anti-slavery novel that gained widespread popularity in the Pre-Civil War era
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Which Constitutional Amendment guarantees women the right to vote?
19th Amendment
California Gold Rush
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The cotton gin, invented by this man, allowed the South to make massive profits from cotton and contributed to the reliance of slavery in the South.
Eli Whitney
The main crop of the poor in Ireland whose destruction led to severe famine and immigration to the United States
potato
The name of the event in 1854 that was a violent period over the decision of slavery in Kansas
Bleeding Kansas
The name of the large farms in the South that focused on one cash crop and relied on enslaved labor
plantations
Which famous "conductor" of the Underground Railroad is credited with leading over 70 people to freedom without ever losing a "passenger"?
Harriet Tubman
In what year did women gain the right to vote?
1920
severe weather in Germany
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What type of society was in place in the North in the pre-Civil War era?
industrial
Immigrants from both this group, along with the Irish, settled in the areas from New York to Virginia
Italians
The definition of a planter is someone who owns at least this many slaves.
20
This compromise that ended the Missouri Compromise and led to violence in the 1854 known as "Bleeding Kansas"
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
This abolitionist published a novel that narrated the lives of those enslaved in the South and gained widespread popularity in the North
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The name of the women's rights meeting held in New York in 1848.
Seneca Falls Convention
Revolution in Germany
Prior to industrialization, most of the US was what type of society?
Agrarian or agriculture
In 1848, this pushed thousands of Germans out of their homeland and led to immigration to the US
revolution
The name of the laws put in to place to limit the freedom of enslaved people
Slave Codes
This type of non-obvious resistance was used by enslaved peoples away to fight back against their conditions on plantations
subtle resistance
This man lived with his family in his "house on the hill" and would put a lit lantern in his window to signal to freedom seekers that passage was safe
John Rankin
The term for the right to vote
suffrage
Violence from the creation of the mafia in Italy
push
In 1850, this law made it a federal felony to fail to report freedom seekers who had reached safety in the North and forced them further north to Canada.
Fugitive Slave Law
Between 1840-1850, this number of immigrants had moved to the United States
4 million
The term for residents within a state deciding for themselves if they would be enslaved or free
popular sovereignty
This man sued for his freedom after his enslaver took him to a freed state, but the Supreme Court ruled against him in a ruling that claimed enslaved African Americans were not considered citizens of the United States.
Dred Scott
This man and his sons slaughtered pro-slavery protestors in response to a raid in Lawrence, Kansas
John Brown
This document was read at the very first Women's Rights Convention in New York and was modeled after the Declaration of Independence.
Declaration of Sentiments
Higher wages & factory jobs in the US
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