Famous Figures
Who is this famous black activist who was known for his intersectionalism activism with women's rights? hint: Seneca Falls Convention
Who is Fredrick Douglass
This event was when Gold was found in California which caused lots of people to migrate there.
What is the U.S. federal law that admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This was a religious revival that gave people the idea that they could work towards perfection.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This was a new mode of transportation which made migration easier by going through waterways.
What is the Steam Boat?
This person advocated for slavery and how it was a good thing. Supported South Carolina's secession attempt.
Who is John C. Calhoun?
The exchange in which Thomas Jefferson bought land that tripled the size of America from Napoleon (France).
Louisiana Purchase
Independent communities of escaped slaves who formed their own settlements with other escaped slaves.
What are maroon societies?
This is the idea that favors the native born people over immigrants.
What is Nativism?
This machine revolutionized the way seeds were separated from fibers in Cotton.
What is the Cotton Gin?
This person was known about the Great Compromiser. Authorized the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850.
Who is Henry Clay?
This trail was one of the most popular and sent people all the way from central U.S to Northwest Coast of the U.S.
What is the Oregon Trail?
This Act mandated that all escaped enslaved people be returned to their master, EVEN if found in free states.
What is the fugitive slave act?
This doctrine established American control in the western hemisphere and blocked off European countries from colonizing in the America's. Also warned European about American affairs.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This innovation was designed to cut through heavy prairie soil which let farmers get seeds in the ground. Very resilient and could do a lot more work.
What is the Steel Plow?
This person founded the "Liberator" newspaper and attacked slave owners through press. They also practiced Civil disobedience.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
Waterway that connected the Atlantic to the Great lakes in America.
What is the Erie Canal?
This party formed over the nullification crisis and they wanted stronger Congress with less powerful executive. Also wanted modernization of the economy.
What is the Whig Party?
This was a movement on an attempt to ban alcohol. Women were mostly involved in this movement.
What is the temperance movement?
Machine that helped with grain harvesting. Helped farmers gather around five times more grain than with the scythe.
What is the McCormick Reaper?
Native American who captured Detroit along with 2000 Americans. Leader of the Shawnee Tribe.
Who is Tecumseh?
This court case ruled that American Indians could not live in the state and forced them to move west. This was later knows as the Trail of Tears.
What is Worchester v. Georgia?
What is Nat Turner's rebellion?
This was tied to temperance and abolition movements. Seneca Falls convention represented this movement that was intersectional with abolition.
What is Women's Suffrage?
This electrical device allowed long beeps and short beeps to make a language called Morse code.
What is the telegraph?