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Nationalism and Sectionalism
Religion and Reform
Manifest Destiny
The Union in Crisis
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To improve efficiency in factories, manufacturers designed products with ... , identical components that could be used in place of one another. Inventor Eli Whitney introduced this to the US
What is Interchangeable parts
100
Another revival of religious feeling swept the country and inspired people to work for a variety of social reforms like Temperance movement (ban alcohol), Abolition Movement (ban slavery), and women's movement (women's rights).
What is the Second Great Awakening
100
President of the US in the 1840's and a strong believer in Manifest Destiny. This President wanted to annex Texas and sent troops to fight Mexico in the Mexican-American War.
What is James K. Polk
100
This 1850 Act or law increased tensions between North and South because northerners were no longer able to ignore slavery and its effects.
What is Fugitive Slave Act
100
Maryland born fugitive slave who made over two dozen trips into the South, guiding hundreds of slaves, including her own parents, to safety
What is Harriet Tubman
200
The national turnpike, canals, steamboats, and railroads were examples of major...
What is transportation developments in the 1800s
200
The First women's rights Convention in the United States took place in New York and was called
What is Seneca Falls Convention
200
What federal document provides for Checks and balances, federalism, and the separation of powers?
What is the United States Constitution
200
Which Supreme Court Decision ruled that enslaved African Americans were property
What is the Dred Scott Case
200
US government removed Native Americans from the Southeast in the 1830's. The real reason behind this removal is because white southerners wanted the Native American "valuable lands" for cultivation
What is Indian Removal Act
300
This economy was supplied with immigrant labor, power from factories mills, rivers and an influx of capital or money for investing into Factory systems which contributed to industrialization
What is the Northern economy
300
He advanced the idea of free public schools that all children were required by law to attend. These public schools would use state funds to support them
What is Horace Mann
300
The belief that the United States should own most of or all of North America
What is Manifest Destiny
300
In an effort to rebuild their prewar world, many southern states established laws called...
What is the Black Codes
300
Northern support for slavery was most likely based on ?
What is fear of competition for jobs
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This southern system of work spread because the development of the cotton gin made the widespread cultivation of cotton profitable, cotton farming was labor intensive and it increased growers reliance on...
What is Slavery or Slaves
400
The American Colonization Society encouraged free blacks to move to what African country... The goal of the ACS was to encourage hte migration of free blacks to Africa
What is Liberia
400
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and hte Gadsden Purchase increased the area of the US by ...
What is one third
400
A federal agency established to aid formerly enslaved African Americans after the Civil War
What is Freedman's Bureau
400
The underground railroad hid runaway slaves and encouraged them to move where?
What is far into Northern cities or Canada
500
Major general in the war of 1812 and won the Battle of New Orleans against the British. Elected President of the United States in 1828 by the "common man". First President elected who was not an aristocrat or wealthy politician. This man grew up on the Tennessee frontier, born in a log cabin and was orphaned. He celebrated majority rule and the dignity of the people. Nickname: "Old Hickory"
What is Andrew Jackson
500
William Lloyd Garrison, prominent abolitionist and editor of "The Liberator" was known for appealing to its readers' sense of... He was friends with Frederick Douglass and demanded the banning of slavery in the US
What is morality or moral correctness
500
In the Presidential election of 1848, this political party forced the Whigs and Democrats to take a stand on the issue of slavery
What is Free Soil Party
500
Like Abraham Lincoln, This President wanted to restore the political status of the southern states that unsuccessfully seceded from the Union
What is Andrew Jackson
500
Stephen A. Douglas created the Kansas-Nebraska Act because he believed it was the right of the people to live in a free state or a slave state. He believed in the term...
What is popular sovereignty