Industrialization
Why did interchangeable parts increase industrial production?
Can now mass produce similar parts for machines and products and easily replace parts.
Why did the election of Abraham Lincoln lead to secession of southern states?
He was anti-slavery
Republicans now controlled the government
What were the Black Codes?
Laws in the south restricting freed slaves
Gold Rush
People went to CA to find gold
Secession
To break away
What are two positive things about working at the Lowell Mills?
Better pay than farm work
Got an education
Had a place to stay and 3 meals per day
What was the 54th Massachusetts Regiment?
First Black regiment in the Civil War
What did the 13th Amendment do?
Outlawed slavery
Abolition
Movement to end slavery
John Brown's Raid
Radical abolitionist who tried to start a slave revolt and broke into a federal arsenal to get weapons
Which part of the country industrialized first?
North
How did Bleeding Kansas foreshadow the coming of the Civil War?
Fighting broke out between pro and anti slavery people.
What did the 14th Amendment do?
Made former slaves citizens
Emancipation Proclamation
Freed slaves in areas that the US military took over during the war
Popular Sovereignty
Let people of a territory decide whether to become a slave state or not
What were two difficulties of going west for the Gold Rush?
Long, harsh journey
Dangers of fights and getting robbed or killed
Very expensive to buy food, etc.
Make-shift housing
Why were the border state important in the Civil War?
They were slave states that stayed with the US.
What did the 15th Amendment do?
Gave former slaves the right to vote, can't restrict on the basis of race
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe about the horrors of slavery
Carpetbaggers
Northerners who went south to run the new governments after the war
What are two things that led to industrialization?
Population Growth
Immigrants who needed jobs
New inventions
Transportation networks
How did Sherman's March try to end the Civil War?
Marched through the south burning everything to try to get civilians to pressure the government to end the war.
What are two problems that existed at the end of Reconstruction?
Blacks lost the right to vote due to literacy tests and property qualifications
The north was more prosperous than the south
Jim Crow laws segregated southerners by race
the south resented military rule
Fugitive Slave Law
Said northerners had to return runaway slaves
Jim Crow Laws
laws segregating Blacks and Whites in southern states after the Civil War