Manifest Destiny
This ideology justified US territorial growth across the continent, often at the expense of other groups.
What is Manifest Destiny
Signed by Andrew Jackson, this act directly resulted in the Trail of Tears.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This term refers to the forced internal migration and sale of over one million enslaved people from the Upper South to the Deep South.
What is the Second Middle Passage?
This 1857 Supreme Court ruling declared that African Americans, free or enslaved, were not citizens and had no right to sue.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
The late 19th-century focus on Technology and efficiency that defined the Industrial Revolution led to which major social problem?
Increased use of Child Labor in factories and mines.
This conflict was most directly justified by the concept of Manifest Destiny.
What is the Mexican-American War?
The name given to the forced relocation of the Cherokee and other nations to lands west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This labor system was common on rice and indigo plantations in coastal South Carolina and Georgia, where slaves completed specific assignments for the day.
What is the Task System?
This territory's use of popular sovereignty to decide the slavery issue led to violence between pro- and anti-slavery settlers.
What is the Kansas Territory? (Or Nebraska Territory)
The rapid growth of cities (Urbanization) during the Gilded Age led to which of the following social problems?
Overcrowding, increased crime rates, and widespread sanitation issues.
The completion of this in 1869 rapidly increased westward migration and trade.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This geographic area was opened up to white settlement by the government after the removal of Native nations.
What are the Great Plains (or the area west of the Mississippi River)?
The Compromise of 1850 included the strengthening of this law, which was highly upsetting to Northerners.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This was the name of the system where formerly enslaved people worked a landowner's fields in return for a share of the crop, often leading to debt.
What is sharecropping?
What industry did the U.S. surpass Britain in the 1880s?
The Steel Manufacturing Industry
This 1803 acquisition dramatically expanded the US and led to pressure for the Indian Removal Act.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This was the name of the military group of Irish soldiers who fought for Mexico against the US.
What are the San Patricios?
This individual led a violent revolt of enslaved people in Virginia in 1831.
Who is Nat Turner?
The Compromise of 1850 ended this practice in Washington, D.C.
What is the slave trade?
Which of the following describes the impact of European Immigration and the internal movement of people (including the early Great Migration) on the industrial labor force in the late 19th century?
It resulted in the creation of a large, cheap, and often desperate labor pool that fueled industrial growth.
The primary goal of US Boarding Schools for Native children was forcing them to abandon their culture, a process known as this.
What is assimilation?
The acquisition of this state, which was admitted as a free state in the Compromise of 1850, intensified the debate over slavery's expansion.
What is California?
This abolitionist published the influential anti-slavery newspaper, The Liberator.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
This was the initial goal of the Republican Party when it was founded in 1854.
What is opposition to the extension of slavery into new Western territories?
American major industrial centers (Pittsburgh, Chicago, or New York) were key location for the following natural resources?
What is Coal Iron and Oil