The North (Ch. 12 & 14)
Which industry grew quickly in the North thanks to changes in technology like the sewing machine?
What did Eli Whitney invent that removed seed from short-staple cotton?
The Cotton Gin
Why did many Irish immigrants flee the British Isles?
Irish Potato Famine
Hoping to avoid more conflict when new states were added to the union, congressmen sought to keep the balance between what?
Slave states and Free States
The Election of who in 1860 pushed the south to secede?
As manufacturing increased, workers started to work together to improve pay and working conditions. What are these groups of workers called?
Unions
Cotton, Tobacco, Hemp and flax are all examples of _ crops that were grown in the South. (What words goes in the blank)
Cash Crops
Movements of people during this time period tried to create a perfect society. However, few of these communities, like Brook Farm, lasted for long. What are this communities / societies called?
Utopian communities
Which Act (Law) made it a crime to help runaway slaves and allowed officials to arrest those slaves (or really anyone they assumed could be a slave) in free areas?
Fugitive Slave Act
What does it mean to secede?
To break away
The growth of this type of transportation caused cities to grow as they brought in new residents.
Trains / Railroads
Many white southerners were poor and owned small farms. What were they called?
Yeomen
Religious movements, like the Second Great Awakening, renewed some people's religious faith throughout America. This influenced social movements as well, like this one, that called for people to stop drinking hard liquor.
Temperance Movement
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed the future states of Kansas and Nebraska self-determination - meaning they got to vote if they were a slave state or a free state. This led to what event?
Bleeding Kansas
The Confederate States of America formed when Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Texas, and what other state seceded?
Louisiana
Telegraphs used what code to communicate over wires across great distances?
Morse code
To control slaves' actions, many slaves passed strict laws. For example, many states prohibited the education of slaves. What were these laws called?
Slave Codes
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Henry David Thoreau were some of the many writers and philosophers who found spiritual wisdom in the belief that people could transcend, or rise above, material things in life. What was this movement called?
Transcendentalism
The ___ Decision ruled that African Americans, slave or free, were not citizens un the US Constitution. It also ruled that because African Americans were property, the 5th Amendment - which says you can't be deprived of your property - meant that laws banning slavery were unconstitutional. (Yikes)
The Dred Scott Decision
Who was the President of the Confederate States of America?
Jefferson Davis
As cities and immigration to those cities grew, many city dwellers could only afford to live in this type of housing - which were poorly designed, overcrowded, and unsafe.
Tenements
The most violent slave revolt in the country, which ended in the deaths of about 60 white people and 100 innocent slaves, was led by who?
Nat Turner
What is the document written by the women of the Seneca Falls Convention that declared women to be created equal and brought 18 charges against men - just like King George in the Declaration of Independence.
Declaration of Sentiments
John Brown led an armed revolt to take weapons and give them to enslaved people and start a slave rebellion. Where was the arsenal he tried to raid?
Harpers Ferry, Virginia
What political party was Lincoln representing when he was elected?
Republican