Expansion and early conflict
What is the war between the United States and Mexico took place from 1846–1848.
What is the Mexican-American War?
The Industrial Revolution changed production from hand-made goods to goods made by these.
What are machines?
People who worked to end slavery were known as this.
What are abolitionists?
This compromise in 1820 allowed Missouri to enter as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The Civil War was fought between these two sides.
What are the Union and the Confederacy?
The discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill in 1848 caused this major migration to California.
What is the California Gold Rush?
This inventor created the cotton gin in 1793.
Who is Eli Whitney?
Most enslaved people in the United States lived in this region before the Civil War.
What is the South?
This law passed in 1854 allowed settlers in Kansas and Nebraska to vote on slavery.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This Union strategy planned to blockade Southern ports and control the Mississippi River.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
his Native American tribe lived in the Miami area before European settlers arrived.
Who are the Tequesta?
Whitney helped develop this system where parts of products were made identical.
What are interchangeable parts?
This book by Harriet Beecher Stowe showed the cruelty of slavery.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
This term describes strong differences between the North and South.
What is sectionalism?
One advantage of the North was more factories, railroads, and a larger this.
What is population?
These were formerly enslaved African Americans who lived with the Seminole tribe in Florida.
Who are the Black Seminoles?
The cotton gin increased production of this crop in the South.
What is cotton?
This abolitionist led a raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry in 1859.
Who is John Brown?
This major issue caused the most disagreement between the North and South.
What is slavery?
This 1863 battle in Pennsylvania was the turning point of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This Seminole leader fought U.S. forces during the Seminole Wars.
Who is Osceola?
Factories and most industry during the Industrial Revolution were located mainly in this region.
What is the North?
This Supreme Court case ruled that African Americans were not citizens and Congress could not ban slavery in territories.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
When earlier agreements failed to keep peace between North and South, historians call it this.
What is the breakdown of compromise?
This event in 1865 ended the Civil War when General Lee surrendered to General Grant.
What is Appomattox Court House?