Vocabulary
Westward Expansion
Industrial Revolution
Pre-Civil War
Potpourri
100
This document is known as the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
100
These two men explored the Louisiana Purchase in 1804.
Who is Lewis & Clark?
100
This machine invented by Eli Whitney increased the number of slaves in the United States.
What is the cotton gin?
100
The economy in the south is based on this.
What is agriculture?
100
Slave owners thought of their slaves as this.
What is property?
200
This is the belief that the U.S. is meant to expand from the Atlantic to Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
200
These are three challenges that people faced when moving out west.
What are hunger, diseases, geography, terrain, weather?
200
Through the industrial revolution, women began working and earned this.
What is economic freedom?
200
The economy in the north is based on this.
What is industry?
200
This means that political power belongs to the people and was used in the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Compromise of 1850.
What is popular sovereignty?
300
William Still and William Lloyd Garrison were two men who belonged to this group, who had strong feelings about slavery.
What is abolitionist?
300
This is an example of how people achieved manifest destiny in the 1800's.
What is Louisiana Purchase, Trail of Tears, the trails west?
300
This invention improved communications in the 1800s.
What is the telegraph?
300
This act, which was included in the Compromise of 1850, was strongly disliked by abolitionists in the north.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
300
Andrew Jackson was often referred to by his enemies as this type of ruler.
What is a king?
400
House of Representatives, Senate, and writing laws are examples of this branch of the U.S. government.
What is the legislative branch?
400
This group was negatively affected by manifest destiny.
What is Native Americans, slaves, African Americans?
400
This machine sped up travel time and lowered the cost of shipping goods.
What is the railroad or steamboat?
400
The south's need to preserve slavery, the north's desire to keep the Tariff of Abominations are examples of this concept.
What is sectionalism?
400
This was the lasting outcome of the War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain.
What is increased patriotism/nationalism?
500
This was the major outcome in the Marbury vs. Madison court decision.
What is judicial review?
500
This was the effect of the Louisiana Purchase on the boundaries of the United States.
What is it doubled the size of the U.S.?
500
The use of interchangeable parts led to this process.
What is mass production?
500
This political party from the Kansas territory fought for Kansas to be a free state.
What is the Free Soilers?
500
Nullification Crisis, Southern reaction to California becoming a free state, and the South's decision to secede after the Election of 1800 are examples of what concept.
What is states' rights?