Misc.
What was the Southern economy based on?
slave labor planting and harvesting crops on plantations
What type of housing did most plantation slaves live in?
simple cabins
Nativists were against what population of people?
Immigrants
Who crafted the Missouri Compromise, which was passed in 1820?
Henry Clay
What country did Texas belong to at the time of their move for independence?
Mexico
How did the cotton gin speed up the production of cotton?
separating the seeds from the cotton plant quickly
What group of enslaved people could keep some of their wages? Enslaved people in cities, enslaved people on plantations
enslaved people in cities
What job did both William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass have?
newspaper editors - Douglass also wrote an autobiography
What state started the States' rights issue of nullification by refusing to follow federal laws?
South Carolina
Who was the General of the Texas army and first president?
Father = Stephan Austin
General/President = Sam Houston
What was one problem with overland travel in the late 1700s and early 1800s?
it was slow and expensive to ship goods over land
How did the invention of the cotton gin affect the use of slave labor in the South?
What was the name of the religious movement that influenced abolitionists?
Which region demonstrated a sectional hatred for the tariffs of the American System?
South
What did Texas do after Santa Anna's rise to power in Mexico?
revolted and declared independence from Mexico
cities became overcrowded as more people moved there to look for factory work
What type of modern music is based on the religious music of enslaved people?
gospel music
Who did the American Anti-Slavery Society write resolutions and petitions to outlaw slavery?
Congress
Who was a two-time vice president from South Carolina that supported slavery and states' rights
John C. Calhoun
After Texans revolted and captured San Antonio in the 1830s, what general brought troops to take back the city
Santa Anna
How many miles of railroad did the US have by 1860?
30,000
What were the laws that controlled the lived of enslaved people called?
Slave codes
What did Nativists believe about immigrants
that they couldn't fit into American society
What happened to the Tariff of 1828 as a result of the compromise between the North and South?
Britain