Industrial Revolution
What is the term for the movement from rural areas like farms, to urban areas like cities?
Urbanization
North
Women who escaped slavery, and later led many others to their freedom as a conductor on the "Underground Railroad"
Harriet Tubman
Allowed Missouri to enter as slave state, Maine as free state, and created a line West that determined whether slavery would be allowed or not in those territories.
Missouri Compromise
Laws created in the South that severely limited the rights of enslaved people and made them nothing more than property.
Slave Codes
Where did the Industrial Revolution begin, and in which industry?
Great Britain, textile industry
Rural and Agricultural describes which region?
South
Abraham Lincoln
Was a historical fiction book written about slavery in the South based on the interviews of escaped slaves. This shocked many northerners and caused them to look at the slavery issue differently.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The most important commodity and export in the United States during the 1800s.
"King" Cotton
Who is considered the father of the Industrial Revolution in America, after sneaking out of Great Britain with secretes and building the first textile mill?
Samuel Slater
Abolished slavery, but discriminated and segregated people of color, viewing them as inferior
North
Enslaved man in Virginia who led an unsuccessful slave revolt; he was eventually captured and killed; the South responded by passing harsher Slave Codes
The Supreme Court ruled that African-Americans were not citizens, that living in free territory did not make an enslaved person free, and stated that slave owners could bring enslaved people anywhere.
Dred Scott Decision
The greatest fear of people that were enslaved
Being separated from their families
Name the types 3 of power sources used during the 1st Industrial Revolution in order of when they were used.
Human powered, Water powered, Steam powered
South
An abolitionist who believed he was put on earth to end slavery; he determined the only way to end slavery was through violence -- both in Kansas, and an attempted slave rebellion using weapons from Harper's Ferry Armory. Being found guilty and executed for treason, be was viewed differently in the North and South.
John Brown
Allowed California to enter as a free state, popular sovereignty for the rest of Mexican Cession land, and created a harsher Fugitive Slave Law requiring northerners to assist in the capture of fugitive slaves.
Compromise of 1850
Percentage of African-Americans in the South that were free?
6% (would except 5%)
Who came up with the idea of interchangeable parts, and what challenge was faced that required this new way of assembling?
Eli Whitney - had to produce 10,000 firearms for the U.S. government in 2 years
Much of this "region" in the U.S. was left up to popular sovereignty to determine if slavery would exist here.
The West (or western territories)
Jefferson Davis
Created 2 new organized territories, and allowed for popular soverignty to determine whether or not slavery would exist there. This undid the Missouri Compromise that was made decades earlier.
Canada (or Britain)