Colonial Times
Shipbuilding, fishing, trade, and fur trading were all economic activities found in this colonial region.
What is the New England region?
One advantage of this system is that it rotates government jobs.
What is the spoils system?
This doubled the size of the United States and gave us new resources after we bought it from France in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This book, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, made people angry over the horrors of slavery and helped lead the country towards the Civil War.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This, by John Brown, was a contributing factor of the Civil War.
What is the Raid on Harper's Ferry?
These were included in the Declaration of Independence to let the world know why the colonies were declaring their independence.
What are grievances against the king?
The three branches of government create this system so that no one branch has more power than any other.
What is checks and balances?
This area of land was bought in order to build a transcontinental railroad.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
This allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, Maine to enter as a free state and outlawed slavery north of the 36° 30’ line of latitude except in Missouri.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
In his first inaugural speech he said that if there was to be a civil war it would be the South that would start it.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Many southerners lived in this type of area, also known as the countryside.
What is rural?
This was a combination of both the New Jersey and Virginia Plans. Congress would have two houses. The Senate would have equal representation for each state and the House of Representatives would be based on population.
What is the Great Compromise?
This is why white settlers wanted land belonging to Native Americans.
What is to farm cash crops (cotton)?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed settlers to determine whether slavery would be allowed in new territories by this.
What is popular sovereignty (voting)?
The Emancipation Proclamation freed all slaves in these states.
What are rebellious states?
During the Revolutionary War the Continental Army fought against them.
Who are the British?
Natural rights come from here.
Who is God?
This line of latitude is the border between the United States and Canada.
What is 49°N?
Southern senators wanted to keep a balance of these so they would have equal representation in the Senate and the North could not outlaw slavery.
What are free and slave states?
During the Civil War the United States of America fought against this country.
What is the Confederate States of America?
Common Sense, written by Thomas Paine, did this for the soldiers in the Revolutionary War.
What is helped motivate them?
Liberty, equality, and justice for all are values from this period.
What is the Enlightenment Period?
This is the belief that the U.S. had the right and duty to expand democracy across the North American continent
What is Manifest Destiny?
This said that slavery would be prohibited in the area added to the U.S. as a result of the Mexican-American War, or Mexican Cession.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
Families, friends, and neighbors living in these states often found themselves fighting on opposing sides.
What are border states?