Ind Rev
What group immigrated here because of a potato famine and faced discrimination?
Irish
What allowed for faster transportation on water?
Steamboat
What did Elizabeth Cady Stanton give a speech fighting for at the Seneca Falls Convention?
Women's Suffrage
What is the nickname of Kansas as people were fighting over slavery?
Bleeding Kansas
Define abolition for $100 dollars
It is trying to get rid of slavery
What metal did the Bessemer Process make faster and cheaper?
Steel
What invention created a higher demand for cotton due to cleaning cotton faster?
Cotton Gin
What did Frederick Douglass fight against after he was able to runaway and live in the North?
He fought against slavery
Which region believed slavery was critical or important to their economy?
The South
Which compromise expanded slavery into the sate of Missouri?
What impact did faster transportation have on the cost of goods to buy?
lowered the cost and made them cheaper to buy
What made communication easier over long distances?
The telegraph
What book led many in America to oppose slavery?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Which law allowed for runaway slaves to be kidnapped and angered northern abolitionists?
The Fugitive Slave Act
The Compromise of 1850 allowed which state to enter as a free state?
California
What's the new idea for making a bunch of smaller parts and then assembling them together, which makes things quicker?
interchangeable parts
What major canal built in New York impacted the growth of New York cities?
The Erie Canal
Which reform wanted to regulate the buying and selling of alcohol?
Temperance
What was the argument the South used to fight against paying tariffs and later on to hold onto to slavery?
states rights
In the 1850 Compromise, which state entered as a slave state to balance California as a free state?
Texas
What is a single place where workers could do specialized jobs working together, usually to mass produce something?
factory
What kind of economic system is defined by having little government interference?
Your hint: it could sound like you don't have to pay for something
the free enterprise system
Dorothea Dix looked to improve conditions in mental hospitals and in American _________.
prisons
What court case about slavery angered the northern abolitionists even more?
The Dred Scott Case
A martyr for abolition, but the South thought he was a terrorist.
John Brown