Industrialization
This innovation increased cotton production and slavery by removing the seeds at a faster rate.
What is the cotton gin?
The largest purchase of land in 1803 that involved the United States and France.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This Compromise from 1830 drew the 36°30' line Westward across the country in which slavery could not be above.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
This movement was meant to put an end to slavery.
What is the Abolition movement?
President elected at the start of the Civil War.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
The North had more of this transportation method than the South during the Civil War.
What is a railroad?
Newly independent land that was annexed by the United States.
What is Texas?
This Compromise allowed California to enter as a free state despite a portion of it being below the 36°30' line.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
The meeting where women got together and talked about getting more rights.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
This many people died during the Civil War.
What is 660,000 Americans?
This innovation made muskets more accurate and able to fire at a further distance.
What is the rifled barrel?
Following the Mexican-American War the United States gained this territory from Mexico.
What is the Mexican Cession?
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
This Compromise allowed for the Utah and New Mexico territories to use popular sovereignty to decide whether a territory would be free or enslaved.
What was the Kansas Nebraska Act.
This book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe was meant to open people's eyes to the horrors of slavery.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Lincoln's speech after a battle that was about freeing the slaves.
What was the Gettysburg Address?
During the industrial era, people would move to the cities to work in factories. People who needed cheap housing would often live in buildings called.
The reason for organizing the Louisiana Territory.
What was the transcontinental railroad?
What is the timeline of Compromises created to put a regulation on expansion of slavery.
What is Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, and Kansas-Nebraska Act?
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
This gave the North an extreme advantage over the South.
What is more resources?
The Market Revolution caused Women at the time to make this change in their lives.
What is the move from farms to factories?
This treaty gave the United States the rights to Florida.
What is the Adam Onis Treaty?
These compromises were meant to solve this problem in government.
What is an imbalance of free and slave states?
The pathway Slaves took to escape the South and head North.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This was created after it was nearly impossible to identify deceased soldiers at the Battle of Gettysburg.
What is a dog tag?