Industrial Revolution
What invention by Eli Whitney made cotton production faster?
What is the cotton gin?
Who was the President during the Louisiana Purchase?
Who is Thomas Jefferson
What group of people did Jackson claim to support the most?
Who are the "common people" or "common man"?
What event in 1849 caused a population boom in California?
What is the Gold Rush?
Which document officially separated the American colonies from Great Britain?
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Which transportation system connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean?
Erie Canal
What year was the Louisiana Purchase made?
What is 1803?
What is the name of the system where Jackson gave government jobs to his supporters?
What is the spoils system?
Which two states were added under the Missouri Compromise?
What are Missouri and Maine?
What crop was most important to many Native American societies in early North America?
What is corn (or maize)
What powered many early factories before the invention of the steam engine?
What is water power (or water wheels)
From which country did the U.S. buy the Louisiana Territory?
What is France?
What law forced Native Americans off their land?
What is the Indian Removal Act?
Sing the Erie Canal song as a group or lose 300 points
sing or lose 300
What was one major weakness of the Articles of Confederation?
What is the federal government was too weak to enforce laws or collect taxes?
What was one major effect of steamboats on the economy?
What is faster and cheaper transportation of goods and people?
What major river was important for trade in the Louisiana Territory?
What is the Mississippi River?
Which tribe was forced to walk the Trail of Tears?
Who are the Cherokee?
Why did settlers and the U.S. government want control over land west of the Mississippi River?
What is they wanted more land for farming, natural resources, and new opportunities?
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
What is it freed slaves in Confederate states?
How did the factory system change where people lived and worked?
What is it led to urbanization and people moving to cities?
What was one major benefit of the Louisiana Purchase?
What is it doubled the size of the U.S.?
What was the Supreme Court case that tried to protect Cherokee land rights?
What is Worcester v. Georgia?
What was the Missouri Compromise line of latitude?
What is 36°30′?
What plan did Lincoln have for quickly reuniting the North and South after the Civil War?
What is the Ten Percent Plan? :
The Ten Percent Plan (1863)
Lincoln wanted to make it quick and easy for Southern states to return to the Union after the war.
Under this plan, only 10% of a state's voters (based on the 1860 election) had to:
Take an oath of loyalty to the United States.
Agree to follow all new laws, including the end of slavery.
Once that 10% met the requirements, the state could:
Form a new government.
Send representatives to Congress.
Be officially readmitted into the Union.