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Immigration and Reform
19th c. U.S. society
Reform
West Ward Expansion
Random Surprises
100
THEY can be tied to the reform movements of the mid 1800s because they was instigated in an effort to curb urban crime
What were the municipal police departments of Philadelphia (1751), Richmond Virginia (1807), Boston (1838), and New York city (1845)?
100
IT is the ECONOMIC SYSTEM most closely associated with Henry Clay. It intended to 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
They were some of the results of the Kansas -Nebraska Act which resulted in Bleeding Kansas
What was increased political division since statehood was to be determined by popular sovereignty, and what was the Pottawatomie massacre, an outbreak of violence led by John Brown in retaliation against pro-slavery forces who had earlier killed anti-slavery supporters in the sacking of Lawrence Kansas
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 CLASS and GENDER 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 Samuel F.B. 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 19th century U.S. cities
What was a lack of sanitation such as sewer systems and municipal trash collection?
200
IT 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.
What was the fact that 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.
200
It is the YEAR gold miners flocked to that SPECIFIC SPOT in California
What is gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill in California in 1848?
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 mid-19th century reform movements. (Your answer should name the movement)
What was 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 pro-slavery
What was the concern that they would lose their jobs to the formerly enslaved African-Americans and possibly their social status?
400
ONE WAY IN WHICH THEY DIFFERED WAS the Chinese did not plan to live permanently in the U.S.
What is the manner in which Chinese, Irish, and German immigration differed from each other beyond the mere difference in geographic coasts upon which each group arrived.
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
A reassessment of separate spheres ideology/traditional gender divisions by sphere in American society; women began to assert themselves more politically
What was a result of the emergence of female social reformers during the antebellum period?
400
IT was the POLITICAL 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. (Your answer should name one specific war and the group name for a series of wars in Europe)
What were The War of 1812 and the Napoleonic Wars?
500
IT was the name given to the POLITICAL 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 the U.S. in 1789.
Who was Samuel Slater?
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 was a PROVISION in a appropriations bill that can be said to have 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?