As we move west
This is the reason factories like Lowell welcomed old immigrants(Irish/German) in the 1800s.
What is they needed cheap labor?
This improvement in transportation made New York a metropolis and connected the Northern and Western markets during the 1800s.
What is the Erie Canal?
This would be the immediate result of Lincoln's election in 1860.
What is the secession of Southern states from the Union?
This marked the end of the Reconstruction period.
What is the election of 1876(Compromise of 1877)?
This Northern Abolitionist raided an armory and was viewed as a marty in the North and hated in the South.
Who is John Brown?
This was the reason President Jefferson agreed to purchase the Louisiana territory in the early 19th century which doubled the size of the US.
What is the importance of the Port of New Orleans to access the Mississippi River?
This case further divided the country on the issue of slavery.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This regiment gained respect for showing bravery and courage and would be the first of its kind in the American Civil War.
What is the 54th Massachusetts?
This is the reason for the impeachment of Lincoln's successor.
What is Johnson refused to support many Congressional Reconstruction Plans?
This book would show the horrors of slavery and the treatment of humans as property.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
What is Manifest Destiny?
The invention of the cotton gin, the availability of new farmland in the west, and the demand for cotton in textile mill with have this effect.
What is the increase in the demand for slaves?
This is how the war aims transform with the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is transformed the Civil War from a fight to preserve the Union to a fight to end slavery?
This legislation passed after the Civil War attempted to restrict African American freedoms and support white supremacy.
This foundational document for women's rights was a key factor in spreading the women's rights movement.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
This president would say the following, " ...we should consider any attempt on their[European] part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety..."
Who is James Monroe?
This legislative agreement as the nation moved west allowed for popular sovereignty to decide the issue of slavery.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?
This is how economics affected the differing sides in the American Civil war.
This is how the federal government attempted to extend civil liberties to freedmen during Reconstruction.
What is by passing the 13-15 amendments(end slavery, citizenship, and extending voting to all men regardless of race)?
The Grimke sisters were controversial in their time by doing this.
What is women that spoke up in public against slavery(and later women's rights), which defied gender norms and risked violence in doing so?
This case and previous legislation challenged the principle of checks and balances in the U.S. as the nation expanded West.
What is Worcester v. Georgia and the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
The argument of President Andrew Jackson and John C Calhoun over the tariff of abomination (1832) was more about this issue.
What is state's rights or the constitutionality of laws?
This battle would fulfil the second part of the Anaconda Plan.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
This was the argument against Lincoln's Presidential Reconstruction Plan.
What is Congress felt that the former Confederates should be punished(allow them to gain power back to quickly)?
This was the most widely circulated anti-slavery newspaper during the antebellum period and the Civil War.
What is the Liberator?