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The human and technological reasons that cities grew before the Civil War.
What were standard lumber and nails, road access, and immigrants?
100
Technological innovation that greatly expanded production and increased the need for a cheap labor force.
What was the cotton gin?
100
Mexico gave up claims to land in the Southwest, the Rio Grande was accepted as the boundary of Texas, the U.S. settled claims of American citizens against the U.S. and paid Mexico $15 million dollars.
What were the provisions of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
100
American employers paid little and made employees work long hours; workers had to fill a quota; workers were paid four times a year, frequently in coupons from the high-priced company store; child laborers were whipped to make them work faster.
What practices made the workers's lives hard?
100
The economy in general depended on slavery, some feared competition from freed black people, others hoped to become large plantation owners.
What reasons did southerners have for supporting the institution of slavery.
200
One cheap and efficient means of travel before 1837.
What were canals?
200
Some loafed, some damaged crops, and some revolted.
What were ways that slaves resisted their brutal treatment?
200
Some struck it rich; some were unsuccessful. California grew and wanted to join the Union, which caused controversy between slave and free states.
What were the results of the gold rush?
200
The first state to pass a law limiting children under twelve to ten hours a day.
What was Massachusetts?
200
They believed it was the nation's destiny to expand across the continent and to the far shore of the Pacific.
What beliefs did Americans have about expansion westward? What was Manifest Destiny?
300
The most famous and the longest canal before 1837.
What was the Erie Canal?
300
Industrial development, railroad building, foreign commerce, and banking.
What economic endeavors lagged in the South?
300
California was admitted as a free state, the question of slavery was left open in territory acquired from Mexico, the slave trade was ended in the District of Columbia, and a stricter fugitive slave law was enacted.
What were the provisions of the Compromise of 1850?
300
They were unable to unify labor and had their ideas taken by larger parties.
What were the reasons that the workers's parties were unsuccessful?
300
A mini-civil war erupted in Kansas, as pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces clashed.
What was one result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
400
The most important means of transportation by the mid-1800s, this connected east and west.
What were railroads?
400
Rich land, proximity to the Asian trade, and hardship after the Panic of 1837.
What reasons did people have for going to Oregon?
400
Caused Abraham Lincoln to reenter politics, since he was so upset by it.
What was the decision in the Dred Scott case?
400
A group that focused on improving working conditions. It failed because of the financial panic in 1837 because workers were afraid to antagonize their employers by joining.
What was the National Trades Union?
400
This party emerged as opposing any extension of slavery into the new territories, particularly in response to the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What was the Republican Party?
500
Mandated that black people had to ride in separate streetcars and use separate cemeteries, prisons, and hospitals.
What was segregation?
500
Treaty that ended the U.S.-Mexican War.
What was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
500
New England, the Middle Atlantic states, and the West north of the Ohio River.
What were the three areas of the North?
500
This movement stood for prohibition of liquor.
What was the Temperance Union?
500
Time period when industry began in the North.
What was the early nineteenth century?