Unit 5 - An Expanding Nation
How did the Louisiana Purchase affect the United States?
It doubled the nation's size.
What is an agrarian?
person who favors an agricultural way of life and government policies that support agricultural interests; a farmer.
What was apparent(or obvious) following the presidential election of 1860?
The nation was divided over slavery
What was the purpose of the Thirteenth Amendment?
to abolish slavery
What animal is on the Porsche?
A Horse
What is the name given to the belief that the United States had the right and duty to expand across the North American continent?
Manifest Destiny
Who created the Cotton Gin? How did it hurt African Americans lives?
Eli Whitney; there was now a higher demand for enslaved peoples.
What was the significance of the 36˚30' parallel?
It indicated where slavery was allowed and banned.
What does the Fourteenth Amendment guarantee to citizens?
equal protection of the law
What do butterflies taste with?
Their feet.
What was an incentive for colonists to travel to Oregon Country?
fertile farmland
What was the most common way enslaved people resisted slavery?
by finding ways to quietly rebel; faking being sick, breaking tools, pretending to not understand, destroying crops, fake injuries, etc.
What was the Supreme Court’s decision in the Dred Scott case?
that African Americans did not have the right to sue in federal court and would never be citizens.
What was the purpose of the Fifteenth Amendment?
to protect the voting rights of African American men
Why are flamingos pink? (They are usually white)
Because of the shrimp they eat.
What industry did the United States adopt from the Spanish?
sheep raising or cattle-ranching
What was the Declaration of Sentiments?
A document that demanded equality for women based on the ideas in the Declaration of Independence. They made a list of complaints of the unequal treatment they were enduring.
Where and how did the Civil War end?
At the Appomattox Court House; the Confederates surrendered.
Why did Southern Democrats pass Jim Crow laws?
to separate/segregate African Americans and white people in public life
What's the only bird that can fly backwards?
Hummingbird
What was one legacy of the Californios?
City names in California; San Francisco, San Antonio, San Diego, etc.
What were the four major Reform Movements about?
1. Prison
2. Education
3. The movement to end Slavery
4. Equal Rights for women
In what way did the Compromise of 1850 appease (or make peace with) the South?
It included a law requiring the return of people who had escaped slavery.; fugitive slave law.
Explain 2 ways legislators made it more difficult for African Americans to vote.
1. Poll Taxes
2. Literacy Tests
What is the only other mammal besides humans that can keep a beat (or rhythm)?
Seals