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Immigration and Reform
19th c. U.S. society
Reform
West Ward Expansion
Random Surprises
100
It was a legal service that emerged first in New York and later spread to other U.S. cities in the 1800s
What were municipal police departments?
100
It is the economic system most closely associated with Henry Clay. It intended build the commercial infrastructure of the U.S. through the imposition of tariffs.
What is The American System of Economics?
100
He demanded the immediate emancipation of slaves and didn't necessarily advocate working with the U.s. political system to do so.
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
100
It pushed the party system into crisis and caused an outbreak of violence within which John Brown was a significant participant since the fate of the territories it included would be decided by popular sovereignty.
What was a consequence of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
100
They are the first 16 words of the U.S. Constitution
What are "We the people of the United States In order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice and ensure domestic tranquility..."?
200
It was the social group from which many of the reformers of the antebellum period were drawn.
What was the female middle-class?
200
It was the the way in which Morse's invention vindicated Henry Clay's system.
What was Samuel F. B. Morse’s development of the telegraph through government funding?
200
It was was the primary cause of the epidemics that swept through early nineteenth-century American cities
What was a lack of sanitation such as sewer systems and municipal trash collection?
200
After the Compromise became law, inhabitants of the former Mexican lands could vote to determine if their territory should become a slave state or a free state.
What was the role played by popular sovereignty in the Compromise of 1850 with regard to the lands gained by the U.S. in the Mexican American War?
200
Gold war discovered there in 1848
What was Sutter's mill California?
300
It was the reason for Irish immigration to the U.S. in the 1840s
What was the Irish potato famine?
300
It was what made Cyrus McCormick’s reaper one of the era's most remarkable innovations in commercial agriculture.
What was the reaper' ability to reduce a farmer’s need for manpower, thereby increasing agricultural productivity?
300
One result of this movement and its doctrine that people's moral failings were a consequence of their environments rather than inherent aspects of their character was the growth of various social reform movements.
What was a result of the Second Great Awakening?
300
The fact that Texas would have to be admitted as a slave state
What was the reason why The Republic of Texas was not immediately annexed by the United States?
300
It was one of the primary reasons why the Irish were proslavery
What was the concern that they would lose their jobs to the formerly enslaved African-Americans and possibly their social status?
400
It was the manner in beyond the mere geographic coasts upon which each group arrived by which Chinese immigration to the U.S. in the 1800s differed from that of the Irish and the Germans
What was that the Chinese did not plan to live permanently in the U.S.?
400
It was the mid-nineteenth century religious revival movement within which Charles G. Finney was a leading figure.
What was The Second Great Awakening?
400
It was was a consequence of the emergence of female social reformers during the antebellum period
What was a reassessment of separate spheres ideology/the traditional gender divisions by sphere in American society; women began to assert themselves more politically?
400
It was the party that believed that slavery should be immediately abolished.
What was the Liberty Party?
400
They were the wars that contributed to the growth of the U.S. economy in the years following the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
What were The War of 1812 and the Napoleonic Wars?
500
It was the name given to the party most closely associated with Nativism.
What is the Know-Nothing Party?
500
He was the English-trained apprentice who brought the secrets of British textile machinery to America in 1789.
Who was Samuel Slater or Francis Cabot Lowell?
500
They gave public abolition speeches in front of audiences of men and women for which they were disparaged.
Who were the Grimké sisters?
500
It prioritized sectional politics over party politics.
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
500
He is considered the inventor of the American System of Manufacturing
Who is Eli Whitney?