North
The growth of cities
What is Urbanization
The major cash crop driving the southern economy forward
What is cotton
Allowed for travel by train from coast to coast
What is the transcontinental railroad
Wanted to end slavery
What are abolitionists
1820; Created a line that allowed slavery south of the line
What is the Missouri Compromise
The main source of cheap labor in the north
What are immigrants
The large farms that utilized slave labor in the south
What are plantations
Made it easier to fix machines and pieces became standardized. Created by Eli Whitney
What are interchangeable parts
Disliked alcohol and wanted to ban it across the country
What is the temperance movement
The Compromise of 1850 allowed what state to join the union as a free state?
What is California
When goods a produced in bulk to meet growing demands
What is mass production
Source of labor in the south
What are slaves
A method of long distance instant communication
What is the telegraph
The right the women's rights movement was fighting for
What is suffrage (right to vote)
Following the Kansas-Nebraska act what is the name given to the violence that erupted between abolitionists and slave supporters
What is bleeding Kansas
How people made goods before the Industrial Revolution
What is by hand
The debate over slavery intensified as southern states tried to take slavery where?
What is the west
Allowed for faster upstream travel on rivers
What is the steam boat
Wanted to make school free and compulsory
Who is Horace Mann
Allowed slave owners to recapture escaped slaves and take them back to the plantations
What is the fugitive slave law
Name of the factories that made clothes
What are textile mills
Increased the demand for slaves in the south; Eli Whitney
What is the cotton gin
Connected the great lakes to the ocean
What is the Erie Canal
Fought to better the treatment of the mentally ill
Who is Dorothea Dix
Supreme Court case that states slaves did not have rights, but were just property
What is Dred Scott v Sanford