Industrialization
What were the two main crops grown in the South?
cotton & tobacco
This group of people immigrated to the United States to strike it rich at "Gold Mountain"
Chinese
The term for placing the needs of one section of the nation above the needs of the whole nation
sectionalism
The term for a person escarping slavery on the Underground Railroad
passenger
The name of the anti-slavery newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison
The Liberator
This woman was arrested for demanding to vote in a presidential election
Susan B. Anthony
What type of society was in place in the North in the pre-Civil War era?
industrial
The term to describe something that forces a person to immigrate out of their homeland to a new country
Push factor
The name of the laws put in to place to limit the freedom of enslaved people
Slave Codes
The name of the compromise created by Henry Clay that allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a salve state and Maine as a freed state. It also set the 36'30' line to determine slavery in the future
Missouri Compromise
The anti-slavery novel that gained widespread popularity in the Pre-Civil War era
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Which Constitutional Amendment guarantees women the right to vote?
19th Amendment
The cotton gin, invented by this man, allowed the South to make massive profits from cotton and contributed to the reliance of slavery in the South.
Eli Whitney
The main crop of the poor in Ireland whose destruction led to severe famine and immigration to the United States
potato
The name given to the area in the South from South Carolina to Texas where the largest plantations were located and slavery increased quickly.
Cotton Kingdom
The name of the large farms in the South that focused on one cash crop and relied on enslaved labor
plantations
This abolitionist was a conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman
In what year did women gain the right to vote?
1920
Prior to industrialization, most of the US was what type of society?
Agrarian or agriculture
Immigrants from both this group and the Irish settled in the areas from New York to Virginia
Italians
The definition of a planter is someone who owns at least this many slaves.
20
This compromise that ended the Missouri Compromise led to violence in the 1850's known as "Bleeding Kansas"
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
This abolitionist published a novel that narrated the lives of those enslaved in the South
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The name of the women's rights meeting held in New York in 1848.
Seneca Falls Convention
Most immigrants settled in these areas in the North
cities
In 1848, this pushed thousands of Germans out of their homeland and led to immigration to the US
revolution
In the Pre-Civil War era, Southern plantation owners invested in these two things
land & slaves
The name of the compromise that led to the addition of California as a free state and the passing of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850
The Compromise of 1850
This abolitionist was born into slavery and worked primarily from New York
Frederick Douglass
The term for the right to vote
suffrage
In what year was the cotton gin invented?
1793
Between 1840-1850, how many people immigrated to the US?
1.5 million
The name of the Pre-Civil War era that is characterized by a cash crop economy that heavily relies on slave labor and deep social and racial tensions
Antebellum
In 1831, this man led a revolt that left 57 whites dead and increased fears of slave uprisings
Nat Turner
This man led a revolt in 1859 in an attempt to seize a cache of weapons at Harper's Ferry in Kansas
John Brown
The Suffrage movement began in 1840 when this woman was not allowed to attend an abolitionist meeting
Elizabeth Cady Stanton