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100
This factor contributed the most to the start of the Industrial Revolution in the United States.
What is abundant natural resources.
100
Ex-slave and female activist famous for her speech "Ain't I a Woman?"
Who is Sojourner Truth?
100
The Louisiana Purchase secured control over this river.
What is the Mississippi River?
100
What the first 10 amendments to the Constitution are known as.
What is the Bill of Rights?
100
This doctrine claimed that individual states had the right to revoke federal laws.
What is nullification?
200
Invention that revolutionized American manufacturing in the early 1800s.
What is interchangeable (machine) parts.
200
Claimed he was chosen by God to lead a slave revolt in Virginia which resulted in the murder of 51 white people.
Who is Nat Turner?
200
Country from which the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory.
What is France?
200
The two sides who debated the ratification of the Constitution.
Who are the Federalists and Anti-Federalists?
200
Term for reformers who worked to end slavery.
What is abolitionists?
300
Despite appearances, this factory system of the early 19th century tried to minimize the dehumanizing effects of industrial labor.
What is the Lowell System?
300
As a result of the policy of popular sovereignty this territory became a hotbed of violence between pro- and anti-slavery forces.
What is Kansas?
300
This country ceded the Oregon Territory to the U.S. as part of a treaty.
What is Great Britain?
300
By the time he won his bid for president, property requirements for voting had virtually disappeared.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
300
Historical term for the time period between 1789-1849.
What is Antebellum?
400
Best explanation as to why the first factories in the U.S. were built in New England.
What is abundant water power?
400
Ship that was seized by rebel slaves who were eventually tried in Connecticut.
What is the Amistad?
400
Supporters of this wanted to expand United States territory to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
400
Term for the powers granted to the federal government under the U.S. Constitution.
What are enumerated powers.
400
The term 'supreme law of the land' refers to this document.
What is the Constitution of the United States?
500
The reason the Mississippi River was economically important in the first half of the 1800s.
What is to transport farm goods to market?
500
This compromise maintained a balance between free and slave states and established an imaginary line through the Louisiana Territory.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
500
The Louisiana Purchase resulted in this event in the histor of Native Americans.
What is the Trail of Tears?
500
This Supreme Court justice's greatest contribution was applying judicial review to state and national laws.
Who is John Marshall?
500
This doctrine claimed that the status of slavery in the territories was to be determined by the settlers.
What is 'popular sovereignty'?