famous abolitionist from Boston; lit the US Constitution on fire.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison
100
meeting that attempted to restore order in Europe after Napoleon Bonaparte
What is the Congress of Vienna?
100
Allowed Maine to enter the US as a free state and Missouri to enter as slave.
What is the Missouri Compromise
100
Linked various waterways together to aid transportation of goods through New York
What is the Erie Canal
200
Pair of abolitionist sisters who freed the slaves they inherited.
Who were the Grimke Sisters?
200
violent rebellion started by a slave from Virginia
What is the Nat Turner Rebellion?
200
Counted 3 out of every 5 slaves as "people" for purposes of voter representation in Congress
What is the 3/5ths Compromise
200
Machine that processed cotton. Helped to continue the need for slave labor in the South
What is the Cotton Gin
300
Believed that capitalism creates two classes of people
Who was Karl Marx
300
civil war between two neighboring territories over "popular sovereignty"
What is Bleeding Kansas
300
Allowed "popular sovereignty" to determine whether a state was slave or free.
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act
300
major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transportation, and technology that had a profound effect on the social, economic and cultural conditions of the times
What is the Industrial Revolution
400
wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin," a book that illustrated the horrors of slavery.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
400
Period of time just before the Industrial Revolution. Saw a peak increase in agricultural productivity and net output.
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
400
Allowed California to enter the Union as a "free state", Utah and NM would be entered as "slave states" and slave trade was abolished in DC.
What is the Compromise of 1850
400
long hours, hot crowded working conditions.
What are factory working conditions?
500
Champion of rights for the mentally ill, prisoners, and an abolitionist.
Who was Dorothea Dix
500
Characterized by mass emigration to California looking for riches, dirty messy camps, disorderly living.
What is the California Gold Rush
500
Included in the Compromise of 1850, this allowed slave owners to enter "free states" to retrieve runaway slaves. Often times, freedmen were arrested as well.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act
500
combustile black rock that fueled the Industrial Revolution