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What is the name for the movement to do away with slavery?
Abolition
100
What told Europeans not to interfere in the Western Hemisphere?
The Monroe Doctrine
100
What doubled the size of the United States in 1803?
The Louisiana Purchase
100
What event led to a population spike in California between 1848 and 1850?
The California Gold Rush.
100
What invention led to a large increase in the amount of slaves in the American South?
The Cotton Gin
200
What was discovered in California that led to a population boom between 1848 and 1850?
The California Gold Rush
200
This is an economic system in which private businesses are able to compete with each other with little control by the government.
Free enterprise
200
What is the name given to economic changes where people began to buy and sell goods rather than make them themselves?
The Market Revolution
200
What was the Missouri Compromise (you must mention the states and the idea behind the compromise)?
In order to keep the balance of free and slave states, Missouri was added to the Union as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state.
200
What was the name given to the path Native Americans were forced to travel from Georgia to the new Indian Territory?
The Trail of Tears
300
What did the Monroe Doctrine tell European nations?
The Monroe Doctrine told European nations not to interfere in the Western Hemisphere.
300
In order to keep the balance of free and slave states, what did the Missouri Compromise do?
Maine was allowed to enter the Union as a free state and Missouri was allowed to enter as a slave state.
300
What was the name given to the time when people began to buy and sell goods rather than making them themselves?
The Market Revolution
300
What stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains?
The land acquired in the Louisiana Purchase.
300
What is the name given to the widely held belief that American settlers were destined to expand across the continent.
Manifest Destiny
400
What was the major negative side effect Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin?
The major negative side effect of Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin was that it caused a great increase in the number of slaves in the American South.
400
What was abolition?
Abolition was the movement to end slavery.
400
What was the Market Revolution?
The Market Revolution is the name given to economic changes where people began to buy and sell goods rather than make them themselves.
400
What is free enterprise?
Free enterprise is an economic system in which private businesses are able to compete with each other with little control by the government.
400
What was Manifest Destiny?
Manifest Destiny was the widely held belief that American settlers were destined to expand across the continent.
500
What are the east-west borders of the land acquired in the Louisiana Purchase?
The land acquired in the Louisiana Purchase stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains.
500
What did the Monroe Doctrine state?
The Monroe Doctrine told Europeans not to interfere in the Western Hemisphere.
500
What event caused a major population boom in California between 1848 and 1850?
The California Gold Rush caused a major population boom in California between 1848 and 1850.
500
What was the Missouri Compromise?
In order to keep the balance of free and slave states, Missouri was added to the Union as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state.
500
What was The Trail of Tears?
The Trail of Tears was the path Native Americans were forced to travel from Georgia to the new Indian Territory.