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By the Mid-1800s, how were most goods produced in the Northeast?
Factories
What farming implement (it allowed more farmland to be cultivated) was invented by Cyrus McCormick?
Mechanical Reaper
Why were most American cities started near sources of water? (2 reasons)
Transportation and water power for machinery
This group of southern farmers owned between 50-200 acres and were subsistence farmers?
Yeoman Farmers
The idea that expanding the United States from coast to coast was God's will was called?
Manifest Destiny
Who invented the sewing machine?
Elias Howe
These “groups” were organized by skilled workers to protect each other, get better pay, and to get better working conditions?
Trade Unions
This group of people left their homeland to immigrate to the United States due to a famine?
Irish
This group of southern farmers owned over 500 acres of land and held at least 50 enslaved people?
Planters
Who were the 49ers?
A large number of people who went to California seeking gold.
By 1850, the U.S. built thousands of miles of these to help move goods and people?
Roads and Canals
This was one of the main tactics employed by trade unions to achieve their goal of getting better hours, working conditions, and pay?
Strike
The anti-immigration “American Party” eventually became known as this because of the way members would answer questions about immigration?
Know Nothing Party
By 1860, where were most enslaved people in the U.S. were born?
In the United States (The international slave trade was outlawed in 1808)
This Mexican led the attack at the Alamo?
Santa Anna
This type of new ship could make the trip from the United Kingdom to the United States in just 3 to 4 weeks?
Clipper Ship
Even though slavery was illegal in the North, this group of people still faced prejudice and discrimination?
African Americans
The South was broken up into these two sections?
Upper and Lower South
This person helped many enslaved people to freedom via the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
This religious group moved to Utah so they could practice their religion without persecution.
The Mormons
In 1844, this person helped connect the country with the invention of the telegraph?
Samuel Morse
This woman founded the Lowell Female Labor Reform Organization to deal discrimination and lower pay?
Sarah Bagley
This was the most important and valuable cash crop in the South?
Cotton
This person became a famous abolitionist in the North after he purchased his freedom?
Frederick Douglass
Florida was transferred to the United States from this country in 1821?
Spain