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Industrial Revolution
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Abolitionist
What is a person who supported the Abolishment movement. People who took part in this movement wanted slavery to be ended in the United States America. It was not easy though. Many people did not like the idea of an America without slavery. Even some northerners believed that slavery should not be ended, just contained.
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Fugitive Slave Act-
What is acts that dined certain right to escaped slaves. The stated that if the escaped slaves were captured, they were not given the right to a jury trial. Some Northern states denied the law by passing another law, but then harder acts on escaped slaves were put in motion. This strengthened sectionalism in the United States before the Civil War.
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Monroe Doctrine
What is a document that was proposed by President Monroe. It stated that Europe should not make any more colonies in North America and South America. In turn the Americans would stay out of European affairs and would acknowledge the already placed European colonies.
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of early industrialization?
What is on the economy- More things can be produced faster and the economy will skyrocket. on society- People can have more and work in the factories for longer hours and more money.
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How did the Monroe Doctrine influence foreign affairs?
What is the Monroe Doctrine provided a strong sense of Nationalism to Americans. It stated that they should not get involved in European affairs. Inturn the asked Europe not not get involved in American affairs.
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Bleeding Kansas
What is a confrontation in Kansas between the Antislavery forces and the Proslavery forces. When becoming a state, the United States Government let Kansas decided if it wanted to be a free state or a slave state. Because of this many outside people came to Kansas to swing there vote. Tensions between the two arose, when Proslavery forces burnt down and Antislavery hotel, and the Antislavery force fired back and killed 5 settlers. Kansas in the end, became a free state.
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Indian Removal Act
What is an act that was passed by Congress that forced many native indians to pick up everything and leave there land so that the United States could give the land to settlers. The Indians were forced to go to the land on the west side of the Mississippi River.
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Popular sovereignty
What is a belief that the power of a nation comes from its people.
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Explain the impact of industrialization on the environment.
What is The industrialization reeked havoc among the environment. With the building of new urban areas, more lumber was chopped down and taken. The new fuel pollute the air.
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Why did Andrew Jackson follow the policy of Indian Removal?
What is the Cherokee Indians had lived in the American lands long before the White settlers came in. The settlers always wanted more and more land for the farming. A treaty had been reached about the lands. When America’s economy boomed, when gold was discovered in Georgia, and when Jackson became President, the Americans forced the Cherokee out of the land, into the lands West of the Mississippi River, considered less valuable than. When the court ruled that no more land could be taken, Georgia and Jackson refused to abide to the ruling and continued. The Cherokee were forced on the the trail of tears.
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Cotton Gin
What is an invention to make the process of cleaning cotton faster and more efficient. Many people benefited from this. The plantation owners were able to get more money from more cotton, and the Northern businessmen got more cheap cotton to make cloth.
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Industrial Revolution
What is a period of time when Americans looked over to European industrialization and stopped crafting things by hand and switched to making things by machines. This allowed factories to make things faster and cheaper.
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Sectionalism
What is when a farmer rents a house and land to live and farm on. The landowner gives the farmer the tools to do it. In return the farmer must give some of the crops and earnings to the landowner.
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Describe changes in land and water transportation, including the expanding network of roads, canals, and railroads, and their impact on the economy and settlement patterns.
What is roads made the paths to other places easier. People did not need to go through the woods and other environments. Roads changed how people traveled they could get places faster and get goods places easier. Canals are waterways. Traveling by water is always been faster to travel the land. With canals the trading routes go by faster. Railroads are for trains. Railroads can stretch all over the country. With these railroads and trains, large amounts of goods can be shipped all across the country.
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How did the philosophies and policies of the Jacksonian Era represent a move towards greater democratization?
What is Jackson believed that when cabinet members stay in office too long, the become corrupt and do not see the needs of the people. He created the “rotation-in-office” policy. Jackson replaced 9 percent of the of the federal workers. The “Rotation-In-Office”, or the “Spoils System” was common in the State Government, but was never used in the Federal Government. Jackson ended up appointing even more corrupt officials then before he was in office. For example, the head of the Port of New York, Samuel Swartwout took over 1million dollars away from the state.
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Dred Scott v. Sandford
What is a case about an African American man named Dred Scott. He lived in a free state but was taken and forced into slavery. When his master died, Scott tried to sue the family for enslaving him. The Supreme Court decided that African americans wear property thous and Dred lost the case.
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Jacksonian Democracy
What is a form of democracy that's goal was to give more power to the common man.
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States’ rights
What is a idea of States’ rights believed that the States were able to dine to follow certain laws that the Federal government passed that the did not like.
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What are the consequences of immigration?
What is Immigration often leads to the attraction of drug trafficking and crime. Jobs are harder to find with the surge of population and immigrants coming in. Cheap labor is often used.
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Emancipation Proclamation
What is a speech given by Abraham Lincoln during the civil war. In this he stated that all slaves in the Confederate States of America were no free. Although Lincoln has no power over the Confederates, it helped the Union because it allowed African Americans to get into the Union Army.
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Manifest Destiny
What is a belief that many Americans held. The believed that it was God's will that America was supposed to stretch from sea to shining sea.
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Urbanization
What is when a rural area is taken and filled up with people, places, things, factories, and other things.
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When did the Industrial Revolution start and end?
What is from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.