Market Revolution
When Americans began buying more finished goods instead of making them themselves.
What was the market revolution?
Missouri's statehood bid was different than those of Maine, California, and Wisconsin.
Missouri wanted to enter the US as a slave state or the other three wanted to enter as free states.
This conference promoted women's suffrage and rights in the 1840s.
What was the Seneca Falls Conference?
36' 30"
What is the Missouri Compromise line that says that LA Purchase territory north of the line would be "free" and that south of it would allow "slavery."
Civil War in 1850 was only prevented by this event.
These Massachusetts cities and towns have something in common: Lowell, Waltham, Ipswich, Lawrence
Where were most of the mills that began making machine made clothing located?
Texas was added to the US through this method.
What is a continuing resolution (or simple majority vote)?
This author wrote his most famous exhortation (speech) about "Self-Reliance."
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
Caused Massachusetts to give up its northern territories to balance the Senate.
This law introduced the possibility of slavery north of the Missouri Compromise line.
Which of the following was NOT part of the American Industrial revolution?
Trains, Steamboats, Colt Revolvers, Ferries
Ferries
Louisiana Purchase's impact on the United States in 1803.
Which is it doubled the size of the United States?
The nation of Liberia was founded by this group of reformers.
Abolitionists.
The harshest part of the Compromise of 1850.
What was the fugitive slave act?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
What book basically forced its readers to examine the evils of slavery?
Reaper Machine
This machine made it easier to harvest crops, helping to create surplus workers to fuel the industrial and market revolutions.
These two men united in fighting against the Mexican American war because they believed that the President had lied.
Who are Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis?
Looked for the end of alcohol consumption over time.
What was the temperance movement?
Compromise necessitated because this gold rich territory requested admission to the US as a free state.
What was the Compromise of 1850.
Bleeding Kansas
What did they call it when John Brown and others tried to execute slave owners in Kansas Territory in 1856-7?
Ether
What knocked people out so that they could have pain free surgery?
This president stated that Mexico had killed American soldiers on American soil, when he had actually provoked a confrontation himself by placing US troops in disputed territory.
President Polk
Fosters self-reliance, a triangle between Man, God, and Nature, and promotes education.
What is transcendentalism?
The Treaty of Guadelupe-Hidalgo.
What was the treaty that ended the Mexican-American War?
This event made it illegal for Congress to control the spread of slavery in the territories of the Louisiana Purchase, Oregon Settlement, and the Mexican American War.