The Sectional Crisis
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It's used to speed up the production of the South's most known crop.
What is the purpose of the cotton gin?
A decree freeing all enslaved persons.
What was the emancipation proclamation.
What is a "boomtown"?
People who plowed the plains.
What does the term Sod-Busters mean?
Minnesota Settlers
In 1862 what settlers clashed with Dakota Indians?
South Carolina
What State in the South had the highest amount of slaves?
Who wrote the Emancipation Proclamation?
Gold Mining
What industry helped build America?
160 acres
A homesteader could claim up to how many acres of land?
Colorado settlers tension about Gold and Silver miners.
In what states did tensions begin to rise in the 1860s?
The belief that nobody should be enslaved.
What is Abolitionism
Jan. 31st, 1865
They were already adapted to the Western Climate.
Why were Cattle brought to the West?
April 22nd, 1889
What date did the gov open one of the last largest territories for settlement?
6 battles throughout Central America.
During the years 1860-1890, how many battles with the Native Americans occurred?
$1,000 could purchase
How much was a male slave sold for in 1850?
Vice President Andrew Johnson
Who took Presidency after Lincoln's death?
There was an increased demand for beef in the Eastern US.
Why did English speaking ranchers want to expand their herds?
Wheat farms up to 65,000 acres.
What was grown on bonanza farms?
1870s
In what years did many Native Americans leave the reservations because of disgust of the wars?
1815-16 more than 5 million immigrants entered America.
How did life in the North change in the 1800s?
They came to the US with their belongings in suitcases made of carpet fabric.
Why were the northern newcomers called "carpet baggers'?
An abundance of railroads were built.
Why did the population of the South West continue growing in the 1880s and 1890s?
Where you plant seeds deep into the ground where there is enough moisture to grow.
What is dry farming?
It depended on buffalo for food, clothing, fuel, and shelter.
Native American culture on the plains suffered for what reasons?