Definitions
The significant push toward the west coast of North America began in the 1810s
Westward Expansion
The territorial expansion which set the stage for westward expansion as a whole
The Louisiana Purchase
The main source of economic growth in the south
Enslaved labor/cotton
True/False: The Civil War was fought between the democrats in the North and the republicans in the West
False.
the rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government.
States Rights
Great Britain
The type of economy in the North
Industrial Economy
The treaty which balanced number of slave states vs. free states
Compromise of 1850
the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state.
Which compromise temporarily solved the issue of slavery and westward expansion
The compromise of 1850
True/False: Slavery did not do much for industrial growth in the North.
False.
The president who declared the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
the action of a state impeding or attempting to prevent the operation and enforcement within its territory of a law of the U.S..
Nullification
The compromise of 1850 abolished the slave trade in what city?
Washington, DC
What invention made cotton production extremely efficient and profitable?
The legal case that declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional
the Dred Scott Decision