Reform
What does reform mean?
to change
Which group of immigrants left due to a potato famine?
Irish
President during the civil war
Abraham Linconl
What territory doubled the United States in half
Louisiana Purchase
Who the commander of the continental army
Who was a former slave that became an abolitionist who wrote a newspaper called the North Star?
Frederick Douglass
name one thing the steamboat did
-faster transportation of goods
-travel faster
-expand the market
First battle of the civil war
Fort sumter
After the Mexican American War what territory did the United States get.
Mexican Cession
Document with 27 grievances to the king
The Declaration of Independence
Name the movement to stop the sale and drinking of Alcohol
Temperance
Word: when towns grow from people moving for jobs and opportunities
urbanization
name the battle that split the south in half after capturing the Mississippi River
Vicksburg
Who was president when the United States achieved manifest destiny?
James k. Polk
Name the turning point of the american revolution
battle of saratoga
19th amendment
Eli Whitney invented the Cotton Gin and what else?
Interchangeable parts
what document emancipated slaves from rebelling states
Emancipation proclamation
Transcontinental Railroad
name the law that stopped colonist from moving west of the Appalachian mountains
Proclamation of 1763
first women's rights convention
Seneca Falls Convention
What was one effect of the cotton gin?
-spread slavery
-mass production of cotton
name a battle fought in the north
Gettysburg
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
This event left england in a lot of debt and made the colonist pay for it.
French and Indian War