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20 Cards in this Set
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When was the stemboat invented?
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1807
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What was the fastest and cheapest way to travel in the early 1800's?
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By Steamboat
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What was the new overland method of transportation improved travel in the 1840's?
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railroads
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True or false?
Canals connected the great lakes with several rivers leading to the Mississippi River. |
True
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Describe the Northern part of the United States.
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large industrial cities - lats of jobs/people
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Describe the southern part of the Inited States.
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Agricultural - most people farmers
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What were some of the differences between the north and the south in States Rights?
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South wanted weak ntional gov. (strong state gov.)
North wanted opposite |
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What were some of the differnces in economics?
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North - richer, more fobs than south, and people
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tarrifs
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Soth couldn't sfford the taxes on goods from the north of Europe.
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Politics
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Southern leaders were the few large plantation owners. Those 24,000 were the small percent tha owned over 100 slaves.
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Slavery
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North had done away with slavery. South neede slaves to work the large cash crop farms. It was a way of life that they wanted to continue.
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When Lincin was elected president what were some of the things he wanted?
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Strong national government
Wated slavery to end |
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who was the firt to secede fron the uion?
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South Carolina followed by Georgis, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Louisana, and Florida
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What happended on April 12, 1861?
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Fort Sumter in Charlston, South carolina attacted by confederates War Begins
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What happended in 1820?
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Missouri Compromise bans slavery north of 36 30'N.
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What happended from 1861-1865?
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Civil War puts the Union aganist the Confederacy.
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True or False?
The Missouri Compromise allowed on free state and one slave state into the Union. |
True
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What percent of African Americans, free and slave, were in the south?
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34%
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less than what of the whites in the south owned a slave?
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Half
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Only what of the people owned more than 100 slaves?
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24,000
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