Industrial Revolution
How did the North make their money during the Industrial Revolution?
Factories/Textile mills operated by women, children, and immigrants
What is Manifest Destiny?
The belief that America should own all of the land from coast to coast
Which religious movement inspired people to improve themselves and society?
Second Great Awakening
Plantation agriculture
Slave labor
Farming cotton
They seceded
What is the 13th Amendment?
Ended slavery in the US
Which invention allowed the South to "clean" cotton faster by separating the seeds from the cotton fibers.
Cotton Gin
It led to more slavery
Name TWO effects of the Lousianna Purchase
- Doubled the size of the US
- Gave us the Mississippi River
- Showed that the president had to the power to buy land from other countries
- started Westward Expansion
What was the goal of the Abolition movement?
To end slavery in the US
Name a part of the Missouri Compromise
Maine was made a free state
Missouri was made a slave state
Slavery was banned North of the 36 30 line
Balanced slave states and free states
What was the goal of Abraham Lincoln in the Civil War?
To preserve the Union (make the south rejoin the US)
To end slavery
What is the 14th Amendment?
Citizenship for African Americans
What are interchangeable parts?
Parts made identically so they can be easily mass produced and repaired
Which state wanted to join the U.S., but we refused them because we didn't want to add another slave state or go to war with Mexico
Texas
What was the goal of the Women's Rights movement?
Equal rights and suffrage
Which law was passed as a result of the Compromise of 1850?
The Fugitive Slave Act
Required escaped slaves to be returned to the South
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
Ended slavery in the South
What is the 15th Amendment?
Voting rights for African American men
What is one way transportation changed during the Industrial Revolution?
Canals: man made rivers for trade and boat travel
Steam boats: Invented by Robert Fulton. Boats powered by steam engines
Railroads, roads, and trains
What was the cause of the US Mexican War?
Border dispute
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
How was slavery decided in the territories effected by the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
They got to vote on the issue of slavery
Led to Bleeding Kansas
Why was the Battle of Vicksburg considered a turning point in the war?
The US captured the Mississippi River and divided the South into 2 parts.
What was the goal of the Radical Republicans
punish the south
protect the rights of freedmen
What is the Telegraph?
First long distance communication device
Morse code
Invented by Samuel Morse
What did the US get from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo which ended the US-Mexican War?
Mexican Cession
How did Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau practice civil disobediance
He refused to pay taxes to a state that supported slavery
What was a decision of the Dredd Scott v. Sanford case?
Slaves were considered property
The US could not stop the spread of slavery in the US territories
Where did Robert E Lee surrender to Ulysses S. Grant, ending the Civil War?
Appomattox Courthouse
Name a way the South tried to limit the rights of African Americans during the Reconstruction era
Black codes
Poll taxes
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