Discovered in California in 1849 that caused a surge of immigrants to move west in the hopes of become rich.
Gold
100
Name of the secret system that helped runaway slaves from the south escape to the north to find freedom.
Underground Railroad
100
Device invented in 1793 that separated cotton plant fibers from seeds, speeding up the process of cleaning the cotton.
Cotton Gin
100
Inventor best known for his creation of the cotton gin and interchangeable parts
Eli Whitney
100
Compromise that allowed Missouri to become a slave state and Maine to become a free state.
Compromise of 1820
200
War fought between 1846-1848 where the United States gained the Mexican Cession and the Oregon Country.
Mexican-America War (War with Mexico)
200
Small landowning farmers in the south, that were not able to afford large plantations.
Yeomen
200
This invention made traveling upstream easier and faster during the Transportation Revolution.
Steamboat
200
Total price someone was willing to pay for the capture of Harriet Tubman
$40,000
200
Way in which northern and southern economies were tied together in the 1800's.
Cotton
300
Turned the North into an economic powerhouse by allowing the faster transportation of goods and people through New York.
The Erie Canal
300
Region that stretched from Georgia to east Texas where most U.S. cotton was produced during the mid-1800's.
Cotton Belt
300
Helped keep the American Industrial machine going at night, by providing light so workers had longer days.
Whale Oil
300
A slave from Virginia that started a rebellion to kill slave owners. He was known as a hero to some, but a madman to others.
Nat Turner
300
Region of the country that continues to work with slave labor, but using machines, like the cotton gin, to make cleaning the cotton more efficient - increasing overall profits.
south
400
System where young farm girls and young women would live and work at the mill to earn money for their families. These young girls and women were encouraged to join social clubs, read and write in journals.
Lowell System
400
Emotional songs that were sung by slaves in the south that mixed African and European elements and showed the slaves religious beliefs and hopes of freedom.
Spirituals
400
Region of the country that focuses on building and developing large factories to make products, specifically textiles.
north
400
Man that opened a series of mills in Lowell, Massachusetts.
Francis Cabot Lowell
400
Name of the 'Great Compromiser' that created both the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay
500
The idea that voters in a territory will decide whether a new state will become slave or free.
Popular Sovereignty
500
Law created in 1850 that made it more difficult for runaway slaves to escape to freedom because of severe punishments for anyone caught helping them to escape.
Fugitive Slave Act
500
A change in industry that develops because technology becomes more advanced, making industry more efficient.
Industrial Revolution
500
Name of the people that determined whether slaves were free or runaway in the 1800's.
magistrate
500
The idea that America should expand west and own all of the land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.