The American System
Although the "American System" was designed to be a nationalist program it led to concerns that one region was benefitting more. It created ____________ tensions.
Sectional
Louisiana Purchase
Which compromise divided U.S. territories (future states) along a 36/30 line.
Missouri Compromise (1820)
The Seneca Falls convention (1848) was convened to advocate for?
Women's Rights
Oppose
The transformation of the American economy from a local, self-sufficient one to an economy based national trading and manufacturing is called the __________revolution?
Market Revolution
Texas later became a state after winning a war for independence from?
Mexico
Which compromise declared California a "free" state?
Compromise of 1850
What is suffrage?
The Indian Removal Act removed many natives primarily from Georgia to _______________.
Okalahoma
What effects did canals, railroads, steam engines, the telegraph, and the factory system have on American markets/trade.
Accelerated/Increased trade
What invention increased the demand for land and the profitability of growing cotton?
Cotton Gin
What overarching development cased the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and "Bleeding Kansas"?
Westward Expansion
Those in favor or eliminating slavery were called...
Abolitionists
Property/Land Requirements
The North's geography and labor system favored ________________ growth over agriculture while the South stayed profitable in plantation agriculture dependent on enslaved labor.
Industrial/Factory
The idea that it was the American people's right and duty to spread their culture, and boarders from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean is called?
Manifest Destiny
What did northern politicians agree to in order to add California as a "free state"?
The Fugitive Slave Act
Name two famous Abolitionists.
William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Tubman
Frederick Douglas
John Brown
Harriet Beacher Stow Horrace Greely
What was Jackson willing to use to enforce the law, prohibit succession and keep the country unified?
Military Force
What is being described below?
- Protective tariff
- Creation of a National Bank
- Profitable home markets in the U.S. and a strong economy
- Construct better roads and canals
The American System
Which U.S. president saw value in Mexican territory and instigated a land dispute with Mexico along the Rio Grande River?
James K. Polk
The Kansas Nebraska (1854) act called for the use of ___________________________ to determine issue of slavery in these new territories.
Popular Sovereignty
Although not entirely dedicated to abolition what were two political parties formed to oppose the expansion of slavery into western territories.
1. Free Soil
2. Republican
What Supreme Court case did Andrew Jackson ignore?
Worcester v. Georgia