Immigration/Elections
Womans' rights/ New thinking
Slavery/ Social Structure in South
Resources/Expansion
Inventions/Court decisions
100
Who were the two largest groups of people to migrate to the United States in 1800s?
What is the Irish and Germans
100
After this event an age of reform began for all other aspects of American life
What is The Second Great Awakening
100
This region is where most slaves were concentrated
What is the Black Belt
100
Which group of people was most negatively effected by territorial expansion of the United States?
What is Native Americans
100
What invention had the most significant impact for the growth of agriculture?
What is the cotton gin
200
What did the Irish contribute to the expansion of america
What is cheap labor to further the industrial revolution
200
The Second Great Awakening reformed religion by wdienign the lines of classes and regions creating this
What is Denominational Diversity
200
Owning slaves became the number form of wealth in the South and was considered a privilege in the Southern social structure. How many white Southerners did not own slaves by 1860?
What is Almost three-quarters of white Southerners
200
What is the movement that explained that it was by divine will that they must expand called?
What is Manifest Destiny
200
What invention helped encourage slavery to be maintained? Hint:besides cotton gin
What is Mccormick Reaper
300
What did the Germans contribute the expansion of the United States?
What is the encouragement and example that the west could be settled
300
What is the convention that brought about a new Declaration of Independence revised for women's rights?
What is the Seneca Falls Convention
300
This society was formed early in the abolitionist movement with the goal of transporting slaves back to Africa and founded this place in Africa
What is the American Colonization Society and the Republic of Liberia
300
Which three states after much debate and even a war did the United States buy on 1848
What is Oregon, Texas, and California
300
Which court case's verdict effected the authority of the supreme court forever?
What is Marbury v. Madison
400
What did Jackson's victory in 1828 mean for future politics bringing about what change?
What is a New Democracy over the previously rigid republic
400
The antebellum period was a time for a great reform in American literacy, with many Americans expressing a uniquely American writing style. Who are two such writers? (Answers may vary)
What is Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Coper, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Edgar Allan Poe.
400
True or False: Southerners hated the blacks as a race but liked the individual
What is True.( The race was considered inferior but the individual was labor.)
400
On this night Mexican troops attacked American troops starting the war between America and Mexico
What is January 13,1846
400
Which Supreme court ruling legalized labor unions?
What is Commonwealth v. Hunt
500
Who won the election of 1844, which was considered a victory for democracy and a motivation for Manifest Destiny?
Who is James K. Polk
500
The role of a woman was to be a homemaker during this period. Who encouraged women to enter the teaching profession to resist this thinking?
Who is Catherine Beecher
500
This section of the country did not initially encourage abolitionism because its economy would be negatively effected
What is The North
500
The acquisition of the land from Mexico meant more arable land for South which broached the debate about what
What is Slavery in the new lands
500
Which invention helped to expedite expansion?
What is the Locomotive(Train)
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