In antebellum America laws favored THIS religious group.
What is Protestants?
100
This issue continued to divide the country as more people moved west.
What is slavery?
100
This reform movement sparked a religious revival.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
100
Built first mill where all operations of the manufacture of cloth occurred.
Who is Francis Cabot Lowell?
100
This caused the population of California to dramatically increase in the mid 1800s.
What is gold?
200
19th century internal improvements included roads and what other TWO things?
What is canals and railroads?
200
Main reason that the North developed a manufacturing economy while the South developed an agricultural one.
What is geography?
200
This group used nature as a teacher.
What are transcendentalists?
200
Built nation's first water powered textile mill.
Who is Samuel Slater?
200
This political party supported Tyler's wish to annex Texas.
What are southern Democrats?
300
This document limited European influence in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
300
Debates in Congress over issues like nullification, protective tariffs, and the spread of slavery indicated a concern in the balance of power between what two levels of government?
What is state and federal?
300
New York City became the nation's greatest commercial center because of this internal improvement.
What is the Erie Canal?
300
He said there should be an immediate release of slaves; use violence if needed.
Who is David Walker?
300
This is why abolitionists did not want to annex new territory.
What is did not want slavery to spread?
400
This admitted Maine and a free state and Missouri as a slave state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
400
Most immigrants of the mid 1800's came from these countries.
What is Ireland and Germany?
400
The first women's rights convention.
What is Seneca Falls Convention?
400
First American novelist; wrote about the frontier.
Who is James Fenimore Cooper?
400
He is known as the expansionist president.
Who is Polk?
500
Thomas Jefferson feared that THIS conflict would continue - whether it was abolished or allowed to spread.
What is slavery?
500
Because overgrowth of cotton depleted the soil, this was necessary for the growth of King Cotton.
What is western expansion for fertile land.
500
He wrote the newspaper, The Liberator.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
500
Delivered the speech, "Ain't I a Woman?"
Who is Sojourner Truth?
500
Name for Texas after it became independent from Mexico.