Things and Events 2
Things and Events 3
Things and Events 4
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Potpourri
100
Standard lumber and nails, road access, and immigrants.
What reasons were there that cities grew before the Civil War?
100
Some loafed, some damaged crops, and some revolted.
What ways did slaves have to resist?
100
The residents of territories themselves would have the right to decide whether their territories would be slave or free.
What was popular sovereignty?
100
American employers paid little and made employees work long hours; workers had to fill a quota; workers were paid four times a year, frequently in coupons from the high-priced company store; child laborers were whipped to make them work faster.
What reasons were there that life was difficult for workers?
100
The three areas of the North.
What were New England, the Middle Atlantic states, and the West north of the Ohio River?
200
Cheap and efficient means of transportation before 1837.
What were canals?
200
They believed it was the nation's destiny to expand across the continent and to the far shore of the Pacific.
What were the beliefs of Americans about expansion westward? What was Manifest Destiny?
200
California was admitted as a free state, the question of slavery in the Southwest was left open, the slave trade was abolished in the District of Columbia, and a stricter fugitive slave law was passed.
What were the provisions of the Compromise of 1850?
200
The first state to pass a law limiting children under twelve to ten hours a day.
What was Massachusetts?
200
The time when industry began in the North.
What was the early nineteenth century?
300
The longest and most famous canal before 1837.
What was the Erie Canal?
300
Rich land, proximity to the Asian trade, and hardship after the Panic of 1837.
What reasons did Americans have to go to Oregon?
300
A mini-civil war erupted in Kansas, as pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces clashed.
What was one result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
300
An organization that focused on improving working conditions. It failed because of the financial panic in 1837 and because workers were afraid to antagonize their employers by joining.
What was the National Trades Union?
300
The factor that bound the North together.
What were economic ties?
400
Technological development that caused an increased need for slaves.
What was the cotton gin?
400
Mexico gave up claims to the Southwest, the Rio Grande was accepted as the boundary of Texas, the U.S. paid $15 million and settled the claims of American citizens against Mexico.
What were the provisions of the treaty ending the U.S.-Mexican War?
400
The party that emerged as opposing any extension of slavery into the West, particularly after the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What was the Republican Party?
400
They were unable to unify labor and had their ideas taken by larger political parties.
What reasons were there that workers' parties failed?
400
The reason that Abraham Lincoln reentered politics.
What was the Dred Scott decision?
500
The economy in general depended on it. Some feared competition from freed black people, and others hoped to become large plantation owners.
What reasons did southerners have for supporting the institution of slavery?
500
The treaty ending the U.S-Mexican War.
What was the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?
500
Developments in shipping that led to increased trade.
What were steamships and clipper ships?
500
This movement stood for the prohibition of liquor.
What was the Temperance Movement?
500
Provision that said slavery should be banned forever from any territory acquired from Mexico.
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
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