Early America
Define manifest destiny.
It was the God given right of the Americans to colonize from East coast to West coast
Define sectionalism
Sectionalism is when you put the interest of your region over the interest of the country
List 2 differences between old and new immigrants
Answers will vary
This woman risked her life to help free slaves in the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
This amendment gave women suffrage rights?
19th Amendment
What is the difference between a federalist and an anti-federalist?
Federalist-believes in strong central gov.
Anti-federalist believes in strong state gov.
What is popular sovereignty and how is it used in this unit?
Voting...used to decide if slavery would legal is specific states
This process allowed steel to be mass produced, by removing the impurities from the iron ore
Bessemer process
Who said: "I am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood.”
John Brown
This law stated that northerners were to return any runaway slaves
Fugitive Slave Act
Who purchased the Louisanna territory from France for $15 million?
Thomas Jefferson
What was the first state to succeed from the Union?
South Carolina
What does Emma Lazarus mean by this quote: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free."
Welcomes immigrants to America
Who pushed the a strong national bank, thus becoming the first Secretary of the Treasury?
Alexander Hamilton
This ruling stated that African Americans were NOT citizens and were instead property
Dred Scott ruling
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Europe needs to stay out of affairs in the western hemisphere
Who authored Uncle Tom's Cabin, an anti-slavery novel that helped to flame the fires of war?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What is the difference between vertical and horizontal integration?
vertical-eliminate middle man
horizontal-create monopoly
Name 2 imperialists and 2 anti-imperialists
Answers will vary
2/3 What are the 16th, 17th, and 18th Amendments?
16th--graduated federal income tax
17th--direct election of Senators
18th--Prohibition
List 2 reasons why people say that the "Age of Jackson" was an age of democracy?
1. More people voted in the Presidential election than every before.
2. Jackson himself was considered a common man.
Who was the President of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
This law was put in place to protect consumers from big business, but a loophole in language allowed it to be first used to break up unions instead?
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
This man ran as the Socialist Party candidate in the Presidential Election of 1912?
Eugene Debs
Passed under Woodrow Wilson, this lowered tariffs to their lowest point since the Civil War?
Underwood Tariff Act