Market Revolution
This was the first of the major human-made waterways which was completed in 1825 and helped to make the trip across New York State cheaper and more efficient.
What is the Erie Canal?
This term was coined by newspaper editor John O'Sullivan in 1845 and helped to fuel sectional tensions in the 19th century.
What is manifest destiny?
The invention of this device helped to separate the seeds from the cotton plant and fueled the expansion of slavery in the 19th century.
What is the cotton gin?
This was one of the most controversial pieces of the Compromise of 1850 that financially incentivized federal commissioners.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
This was the site of the first fires shot between the Confederacy and the United States.
What is Fort Sumter?
This region of the United States was the site where industrialization first took off.
What is New England?
This was intended to be a solution to maintain the balance between slave and free states by allowing people living in the territories decide their own status.
What is popular sovereignty?
This plan to take former slaves and send them back to Africa was very controversial.
What is colonization?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed this piece of legislation.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This was the first commander of the Union Army that was constantly at odds with Lincoln and later ran against him in the election of 1864.
Who is George McClellan?
What is Chicago?
This proposal was intended to prevent further disputes in the territory acquired by the Mexican-American War by banning slavery there.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
This newspaper first published by William Lloyd Garrison in 1831 advocated for the immediate emancipation of slavery.
What is The Liberator?
This individual was sent to Mexico to try and settle the boundary dispute over the southern border with Texas and to purchase land including the territory for New Mexico and California.
Who is John Slidell?
This was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War and lasted for three days in July 1863.
What is Gettysburg?
In 1823, one of the first textile mills was established in this Massachusetts town and employed many young women.
What is Lowell?
This president's nickname was "Young Hickory," and he was committed to expanding the United States.
Who is James Polk?
Southerners blamed this event on William Lloyd Garrison and others in the North advocating for immediatism.
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion?
This man was the president when Lincoln was elected in 1860 and did nothing to prevent South Carolina from seceding because he felt he did not have the power to do anything.
Who is President James Buchanan?
This was the name for the Union strategy against the Confederacy.
What is the Anaconda plan?
The market revolution led to the invisibility of labor for this group of people.
Who are middle class white women?
This judge led the majority opinion in the 1857 Supreme Court Case, Dred Scott v. Sandford.
Who is Roger Taney?
These justifications only emerged in the United States to help defend slavery.
What is a proslavery ideology?
This individual gave a speech in 1856 titled "Crimes Against Kansas" and was later attacked by SC Congressman Preston Brooks.
Who is Charles Sumner?
This person was Lincoln's vice president during first term in office that was replaced by another man in the election of 1864 to help win more southern votes.
Who is Hannibal Hamlin?