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America's Economic Revolution
The Old South
Westward Expansion
Crises of the 1850s
The Civil War
100
Ireland and Germany
Where were the majority of immigrants to the US between 1840 and 1860 from?
100
Crop that ensured South's dependence on slavery?
What is short-staple cotton?
100
Devastating battle in 1836 in Texas
What is the Alamo?
100
Law which would punish abolitionists for helping escaped slaves
What is The Fugitive Slave Act?
100
The most celebrated battle of the Civil War
What is Gettysburg?
200
Completed in 1825, this was the greatest construction project Americans has ever undertaken
What was the Erie Canal?
200
Quickly replaced the canal and all other forms of transportation
What are railroads?
200
2000 mile major route West around 1850
What is the Oregon Trail?
200
Slave who moved into free territory and tried to sue for freedom
Who was Dred Scott?
200
Elected in 1860
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
300
Legal protection meaning stockholders could not be sued for losses greater than their investment
What are limited liability laws?
300
The majority of Southern whites did not own them
What are slaves?
300
Treaty that ended the Mexican War
What is the Treaty of Gaudalupe Hidalgo?
300
Book that exposed the human reality of slavery
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
300
North's printed paper currency
What were greenbacks?
400
Source of energy for industrialization by 1860.
What is coal?
400
The peculiar institution
What is slavery?
400
John Sutter found some in California in 1848
What is gold?
400
Admitted California as a free state but strengthened the fugitive slave law
What is the Compromise of 1850?
400
Victorious military leader of the North
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
500
Main crop of the Old Northwest (Midwest)
What is wheat?
500
Laws defining the status of slaves
What are slave codes?
500
Site of bloody battles over whether to adopt a free or slave constitution
What is Kansas?
500
Repealed the Missouri Compromise
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
500
Surrendered at the Appomattox Court House
Who was Robert E Lee?