Market Revolution & Early Industry
What new transportation method connected the Great Lakes to New York City?
Erie Canal
What religious movement inspired many antebellum reform efforts?
Second Great Awakening
What term refers to the belief that the U.S. was destined to expand across North America?
Manifest Destiny
Who was president of the Confederacy during the Civil War?
Jefferson Davis
What amendment abolished slavery?
13th Amendment
What invention by Eli Whitney revolutionized cotton production?
Cotton gin
What reformer is known for her work improving treatment of the mentally ill?
Dorothea Dix
What 1846–1848 war resulted in the U.S. gaining California and much of the Southwest?
Mexican-American War
What 1863 document freed slaves in rebelling Confederate states?
Emancipation Proclamation
What amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law?
14th Amendment
What labor system did Francis Cabot Lowell implement using young women in textile mills?
Lowell system
What 1848 event launched the organized women’s rights movement?
Seneca Falls Convention
What proposed amendment tried to ban slavery in territory gained from Mexico?
Wilmot Proviso
What was the Union’s military strategy to blockade and divide the South?
Anaconda Plan
What amendment guaranteed voting rights regardless of race?
15th Amendment
What economic system emphasizes private ownership and profit?
Capitalism
What document at Seneca Falls modeled itself on the Declaration of Independence?
Declaration of Sentiments
What act allowed territories to vote on slavery, leading to “Bleeding Kansas”?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Name one major role African Americans played in the war effort.
Soldiers, laborers, scouts, etc.
What political deal ended Reconstruction in 1877?
Compromise of 1877
Name two effects of the Market Revolution on gender roles or labor.
Women enter workforce; artisan labor declines, etc.
Who was the escaped slave and publisher of The North Star?
Frederick Douglass
What 1857 Supreme Court decision ruled that African Americans were not citizens?
Dred Scott v. Sandford
What battle was the turning point in the East and led to Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address?
Battle of Gettysburg
What white supremacist group emerged to resist Reconstruction efforts?
Ku Klux Klan