Industrialism
A invention that sped up the cleaning of cotton and contributed to the continuation of slavery
What is the Cotton Gin?
The trail was most used to move west
What is the Oregon Trail?
Before the Mexican war this state fought for independence on their own.
What is texas?
The deadliest portion of a Slave's Journey to North America
What is the Middle Passage?
A series of proposals that allowed California as a free state and left Utah and New Mexico to decide based on Popular Sovereignty.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
A form of faster communication that communicated through electronic signals as groundbreaking in the 1800's as Zoom/Facetime of the 21st Century
What is the Telegraph?
The Idea that America had the God given right to Western lands
What is Manifest Destiny?
Texans rallied around the call to "remember the ____"
What is the Alamo?
Escaped Slavery and became a great speaker and abolitionist
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Made Northerners angry by requiring them to help return escaped slaves to their masters of suffer financial Penalties
What are the Fugitive Slave Laws?
The system of gathering people to work in one place and everyone works on one specific part of the process.
What is the Factory System?
The Final rest stop of the Oregon trail
What is Fort Vancouver?
Polk thought the Southern border of Texas was this river.
What is the Rio Grande?
Escaped slavery, but did not enjoy her freedom and instead returned over 20 times to help more slaves escape
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Determined the Missouri Compromise Unconstitutional and that slaves were property not people with rights.
What was the Dred Scott Decision?
The fastest form of transportation that was the symbol of the growth of America
What are the Railroads?
Who were the people that moved to Utah
Who are the Mormons?
A strong minority in congress was opposed the war because they believed Polk's invading of Mexico was _______
What is unjust?
Famous Abolitionist and writer of Uncle Tom's Cabin trying to portray slavery through the eyes of a slave family.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
The Decision to Allow Kansas and Nebraska to use popular sovereignty to decide if they would enter as slave or free states
What was the Kansas-Nebraska act?
What region had the most factories and was the king of the American textiles production.
What is New England?
The reason half a million people flooded to California in 1849?
What was the California Gold Rush?
Winfield Scott and ______________ were heroes of the Mexican war with _____________ becoming a President later
Who is Zachary Taylor?
The Less preferable form of slavery even though all forms of slavery were horrible
What is the Gang system?
This election was decided because the Democrats split their vote allowing Lincoln a Republican to win.
What was the Election of 1860?