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What kind of rights were expanded before and under Andrew Jackson's presidency?
Voting rights for the common white man.
Double Jeopardy:
Who wrote Uncle Toms Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What type of economy did the North have?
Which state was really lame, complained about everything, and threatened to secede all the time?
South Carolina
This enslaved person attempted to use the law to win his freedom, but the Supreme Court rules him to be property in this Landmark case...
Dred Scott
Nat Turner's violent attempt to achieve freedom in Virginia led the State Legislature to do what?
Make it illegal for slaves to be taught to read and write.
Manifest Destiny is?
America had the god given right to acquire lands from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean
How much was it to buy a ticket on the Underground Railroad?
Well, Mr. Zarotney, it was not actually a railroad and it was definitely not, but it was a decentralized system of trails, paths, and routes to lead enslaved people to freedom most commonly in Canada, the Caribbean, or Mexico.
Name three different types of enslaved peoples during the 1800's?
House Slaves
Field Slaves
Urban Slaves
Who was the hero of the Battle of New Orleans?
Andrew Jackson
The Indian Removal Act was designed to target Native Americans in which part of the United States?
The Southeast
Who invented the Cotton Engine?
Eli Whitney
Double Jeopardy:
What was Andrew Jackson's nickname?
Old Hickory
Double Jeopardy:
Name 3 famous abolitionist that we have talked about in class.
Harriet Tubman
Fredrick Douglas
John Brown
The improvement of ________ during the 1800's supported Westward Expansion and eased travel for settlers.
Infrastructure
The invention of the telegraph mainly allowed people to do what?
Communicate faster using morse code.
What were some of the hardships that the Cherokee people faced on the Trail of Tears?
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What were some of the hardships that settlers faced on the Oregon Trail when they were heading West?
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After the Mexican-American War, the Mexican gave up what lands?
The Mexican Cession (NM, CA, Utah, CO, part of WY).
The Trail of Tears happened after the passage of the ___________ Act:
Indian Removal
The Supreme Court ruled in the Dred Scott Decision that.....
Dred Scott was property, thus he did not legal rights.
It also reinforced the idea that slavery was protected under the Constitution as slaves were property and property is protected.
What were two major reasons the United States did not want to annex Texas?
War Debt and Slavery was already allowed in Texas
What did slavery make the Southern Economy stagnant in the years before the Civil War?
Slaves did not make money, thus did not buy good.
Industry did not take off because half the population did not have money to spend.
Factories went to the North
Describe, in detail the treatment of the Native American people from the time of the War of 1812 to the Indian Removal Act.
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The consequences of the invention of the Cotton gin would be what?
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