Geography
West
Date of the Missouri Compromise.
1820
Slave or free?
Free
Slave or free?
Slave
Main transportation West
Covered wagon
New states added in the Missouri Compromise.
Maine and Missouri
Act that led to "Bleeding Kansas".
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Most people worked in...
Factories
Workers on cotton plantations
Slaves
Railroad (train)
Region that allowed slavery.
The South
People who wanted slavery to end.
Abolitionists.
Factories primarily made
Invention that made growing cotton easier.
Cotton gin
Mineral found in California
Western state added after the Mexican American war.
Texas
To keep the balance between slave and free states.
How items were made before factories.
By hand (at home)
Cotton production was beneficial because
White owners made more money
Two main trails used to travel West.
Oregon Trail and Santa Fe Trail
Location of Dred Scott's lawsuit.
Missouri (St. Louis)
Main people who benefited from slavery.
White plantation owners
Protests led by union workers
Strike
Name for a bundle of cotton
Cotton bale
Name for people traveling West.
Pioneers