vocab
What is mass production?
The manufacture of goods in large quantities, often using standardized designs and assembly-line techniques.
What's Popular Sovereignty?
the doctrine that sovereign power is vested in the people and that those chosen to govern
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
16th president of the US ~ 1861 - 1865, Republican, let the Southern states have slaves (to keep the South part of the US)
What was the Kansas - Nebraska Act?
Popular Sovereignty, located in the Kansas and Nebraska Territories on the issue of slavery, and says the law is in the hands of the people.
What part of America was the Union States?
the North
What are interchangable parts?
identical components that can be substituted one for another, particularly important in the history of manufacturing
What's the Slave codes?
Any of several laws that regulated slavery or enslaved people
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, which was about the attitudes towards slavery and/or enslaved people
What was Bleeding Kansas?
1855 - 1859, 56 dead, Americans fight over slavery, Antislavery settlers from New England, "Border Ruffians" Proslavery settlers from Missouri
What part of America was the Confederate States?
the South
What's the Cotton Gin?
made to separate the seed from the actual cotton
What's the Frontier?
An international border
Who was Eli Whitney?
developed musket factories using water-powered machinery. Also invented interchangeable parts
What was the outcome of the Dred Scott's trial?
People of African decent - including Scott could not be US citizens, Congress cannot forbid slavery in federal territories
What states were the Border states?
What is urbanization?
the movement of people from the country to towns and cities.
What was the Westward Expansion?
a God-given right
Who was Dred Scott?
He was a slave, sued his master, but was not considered a US citizen (only because he was of African decent)
What was the Lincoln - Douglas Debate?
1858, Illinois State Race, Stephen DOUGLAS - Democratic Incumbent V. Abraham LINCOLN - Republican Challenger, Popular Sovereignty Vs. Free soil
Who was Jefferson Davis?
He was the President of the Confederate Sates of America
What's the Fugitive Slave Law?
Law that forced Northerners to return runaway slaves
What's Manifest Destiny?
a widely held cultural belief in the 19th-century United States that American settlers were destined to expand across North America.
Who was John Brown?
Abolitionist who was convicted, and executed by the Federal Government because his plan was to Seize the federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry, VA, with the intent of arming slave for a rebellion.
What was the Battle of Fort Sumter?
A federal outpost in Charleston, South Carolina, Attacked by the Confederate troops, beginning the Civil War, Before sunrise on April 12, 1861, Confederate guns opened fire on Fort Sumter (No human deaths), Lincoln decides to send in ships to provide badly needed supplies to defend the fort, Confederate officials demanded that the federal troops evacuate
What was the life like as a slave?
Since conditions were very poor for the slaves, they are sold between different masters, they get whiped for not working, overall bad