Vocabulary
Southerners claimed that Uncle Tom's Cabin was______ because they believed it did not give a fair picture of the lives of enslaved African Americans
Propaganda
1825
Flat open grasslands in the middle of America are called
The Great Plains
Believing that it was the U.S.'s God-given right to possess and govern the West was known as...
Manifest Destiny
Year by which the California gold rush had begun and the basis for the nickname for the settlers who went there
1849
Letting people in each new territory or state decide for themselves weather to allow slavery is known as____.
Popular Sovereignty
Was the importation of enslaved people banned?
1808
One of the subtle or secret ways that people resisted enslavement was...
Work slowdowns, broke equipment, feigned illness, and poisoned enslavers
These wealthy Southern bells moved the city of brotherly love to join the Quaker abolitionist movement
The Grimke Sisters
What was the myth of free California? Please explain
Alexis will decided if the response earns the points. Do not yell at her... Jeopardy is super stressful to run!
The Mexicans refused Polk's offer because they did not want to ____ any more land to the United States.
was the Battle of Chapultepec
1847
The term for loyalty to the interests of one's own region rather than the nation as a whole is known as
Sectionalism
____ Wanted to preserve the united States for white, American-born Protestants and where opposed to immigration
Nativist
Miners and settlers claimed the land of Indigenous people in California brought new disease and as a result did this to them.
Murder, committed genocide
Slaveholders believed their enslaved were _____ to them.
inferior
Was Jennings v. third avenue railroad co
1854
John Brown's killing of pro-slavery settlers have the name of bloody __________ to which U. S. Territory?
Kansas
Why did Texans rebel against Mexico?
Because Mexico did not allow enslavement
The Industrial Revolution spurred __________, or the growth of cities. As ________(s) built more factories, agriculture workers were attracted to knew types of work.
Urbanization AND Capitalist
did Eli Whitney patent the cotton gin
1794
What did congress have to decided regarding the Mexican Cession? How did it affect sectionalism?
Congress had to decided weather to allow slavery to spread there or extend the Missouri Compromise line
People made fun of De Witt Clinton for planning a water way to transport crops...jokes on them, because the __________ made NYC the richest city of the time! This is not on the test but Alexis grew up near this.
Erie Canal
The government of California used this law to limit Chinese Immigrants' wealth and power.
The Foreign Miners' Tax