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The North
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The West
100
Led a slave revolt in 1831.
Who is Nat Turner?
100
Loyalty to a particular region.
What is sectionalism?
100
Where the Industrial Revolution was centered.
What is the textile industry?
100
What Southerners referred to slavery as.
What is "that peculiar institution"?
100
Often referred to as this.
What is the frontier or "Great Plains"?
200
Invented the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
200
The organization of workers with common problems such as low pay, long hours, and unsafe working conditions.
What are unions?
200
The factor that drove most of the Irish immigrants to the United States during this time.
What is the potato famine?
200
Responsible for a fourfold increase in the number of slaves from 1800 to 1860.
What is the cotton boom?
200
Led the way for the earliest whites that settled in the area.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
300
Referred to the sections of the nation in terms of the points of the compass as he attempted to portray the dangers these divisions hold for a nation.
Who is Daniel Webster?
300
A large number of native-born Americans alarmed by the influx of immigrants.
What are Nativists?
300
The two main countries where immigrants to the North came from.
What are Ireleand and Germany?
300
The two ways in which the number of slaves in the South increased exponentially.
What is smuggling and natural reproduction?
300
A series of acts promoting the movement of people to the west.
What are the Homestead Acts?
400
Invented the steel plow, which revolutionized agriculture in the North.
Who is John Deere?
400
Poor white farmers in the south, as they were derisively called by the wealthy planters.
What are "hillbillies" or "poor white trash"?
400
The party that arose as a result of a return of Nativist feelings in the early 1850s.
What is the Know-Nothing Party?
400
The kind of medieval society that the South most resembled.
What is a feudal society?
400
Coined by John O'Sullivan. Led to the growth of the West.
What is manifest destiny?
500
Planned a slave rebellion in 1822, but got cought before he could complete it.
Who is Denmark Vesey?
500
A Massachusetts Supreme Court case in which peaceful unions were given the right to negotiate.
What is Commonwealth v. Hunt?
500
What percentage of African Americans living in the North were free citizens?
What is 1%?
500
The largest city in the South, and the fifth largest in the nation (in terms of population).
What is New Orleans?
500
The addition of some of the originial Western states to the Union followed the policies set into place by this.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?