Meetings full of emotion, Bible studies, and prayer, with a goal to increase individuals' faith.
What is a revival?
100
This man was one of the first white abolitionists, and he published "The Liberator" newsletter.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
100
This increased trade and travel as it decreased travel times, especially up and down the trade route of the Mississippi.
What is a steamboat?
100
Native Americans were forced on to these tracts of land.
What is a reservation?
100
Choosing to disobey laws or rules, without violence.
What is civil disobedience?
200
A place that provided political involvement, cultural options, social services, and a faith/religious home for African Americans.
What is the AME?
200
This term means a "complete doing away with" and to then became the name for the movement to end slavery.
What is abolitionism?
200
These factories usually hired young, unmarried women and were very strict about their lives.
What are the Lowell Mills?
200
This trail began in Independence, MO and thousands of settlers used it to move west.
What is the Oregon Trail?
200
This word refers to the time period before the American Civil War (the time period we are studying right now!)
What is antebellum?
300
This movement worked to get rid of all forms of alcoholic beverages.
What is the temperance movement?
300
This former slave was taught to read and write and believed that "knowledge could be the pathway from slavery to freedom." He became a widely respected speaker.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
300
This is the name for someone who is just beginning to learn a craft.
What is an apprentice?
300
This is the concept that the United States would, could, and should absolutely take over all of the land from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
What is manifest destiny?
300
The cult of domesticity was based on
What are traditional customs?
400
This organized meeting worked to get support for the Women's movement, though nothing changed politically as a result.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
400
This event was signaled by an eclipse of the sun, ended with 200 slaves and 60 whites dead, and increased white southerners' energy to control their slaves.
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion?
400
This machine enabled one farm owner to do the work of 5 hired men by harvesting crops more quickly. *Bonus points for knowing the inventor's name!
What is a mechanical reaper? (Cyrus McCormick)
400
This agreement with our neighbors to the south finalized the border of what would become the lower 48 United States.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
400
The Second Great Awakening focused on
What is the power and importance of an average person?
500
This movement focused on living a simple life, and paying attention to things that are true in nature and within a person.
What is trascendentalism?
500
Rural Slavery vs. Urban slavery - Compare and Contrast.
Under urban slavery, slaves were hired out by their masters to work for someone else. They had less supervision but didn't keep their pay. Rural slaves had almost constant direct supervision and often were treated much worse.
500
A huge wave of these people immigrated to the USA because of a crop failure in their country.
What are the Irish immigrants of the 1840s and 1850s?
500
Summarize what happened at the Alamo.
Santa Anna wanted Texans to follow the laws he had established. The Mexican army marched to San Antonio and the Texans took up arms and attacked. Santa Anna's troops swarmed back and killed all of the American men defending the fort. It then became a rallying cry and Texas eventually won their independence.
500
Was President Polk's attitude and behavior towards Mexico positive or negative for the USA? Explain.