Industrial Revolution
How did the Industrial Revolution impact urbanization?
Increased movement of people from rural areas to cities .
What was the term used to describe the belief that Americans were destined to expand across the continent?
Manifest Destiny
Name one social reform movement that emerged in the 19th century.
Abolition
Temperance
Prison
Mental Health
Education
Women's Rights
Define sectionalism
The loyalty to a particular region or section of the country
What were the two main opposing sides in the Civil War?
Union and Confederacy
This invention, created by Samuel Morse in 1837, revolutionized long-distance communication.
Telegraph
Name one group of people who migrated west during the Gold Rush
Fourty-Niners
Who was a leading figure in the women's suffrage movement?
Susan B. Anthony
What differences contributed to sectionalism in the U.S.?
Slavery, economy, and states' rights
Who were the Presidents of the opposing sides of the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln- Union
Jefferson Davis- Confederacy
This invention by Eli Whitney in 1793 revolutionized cotton production in the South.
Cotton Gin
What was the impact of the Homestead Act of 1862?
Promoted western settlement by giving land to people to settle on.
What was the goal of the temperance movement?
To stop the consumption, buying, selling, and creating of alcohol.
This event in 1859 involved John Brown's raid on a federal arsenal in Virginia, aiming to start a slave revolt.
Raid on Harpers Ferry
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
An executive order that freed enslaved people in the Confederate states.
The development of this transportation system helped speed up the movement of goods and people across the U.S. during the Industrial Revolution.
Railroads
In 1848 the US gained this land with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
Mexican Cession
What education reformer is known for promoting public education?
Horace Mann
How did the Missouri Compromise attempt to address sectionalism?
It maintained a balance between free and slave states.
Who divided the South into five military districts to ensure that Reconstruction was enforced?
Radical Republicans
Who created the steamboat?
Robert Fulton
In the year 1845, the United States gained this territoty.
Texas
The Seneca Falls Convention, organized in 1848, was the first major event advocating for this group's rights.
Women's Rights
This 1857 Supreme Court case ruled that African Americans, whether free or enslaved, could not be American citizens.
Dred Scott v. Sandford
This amendment, ratified in 1870, granted voting rights regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
15th Amendment