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25 Cards in this Set
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The Industrial Revolution was characterized by an increase in manufacturing in which part of the country?
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The North
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The invention of the cotton gin increased the need for ______ in the South.
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Slavery
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Daniel Webster and John C. Calhoun went head to head over which issue that would boost Northern economies but stifle Southern ones?
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Protective Tariffs on British goods
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Why was Europe's industry so far ahead of America's?
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Americans had been used as a resource for England and had little development until the War of 1812.
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What is Manifest Destiny?
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The idea that it was Americans God-given right to spread democracy to west and across the world.
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When Texas was annexed why was Mexico angry?
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Santa Anna had been forced to sign the treaty and the Mexican government did not recognize it.
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The Gadsden Purchase completed Manifest Destiny by purchasing...
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The strip of land in southern Arizona and New Mexico.
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Many settlers moved West because they wanted to...
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Find better homes and fortunes.
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One of the main killers of settlers moving West was...
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Cholera
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What was the concern from Northerners in Congress when debating the annexation of Texas?
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It was a slave state and they would be outnumbered in both houses.
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Originally many of the workers in textile mills were...
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young unmarried women
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Eli Whitney's idea of interchangeable parts sparked the rise of ________ which moved production from one man in a shop to several men and machines working in factories
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The factory system
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Without this discovery by Beckwourth the Sierra Nevada's would have been unpassable
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Beckwourth's Pass
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When Santa Anna invaded San Antonio the small force of soldiers there took up defenses at what Spanish Mission?
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The Alamo
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Texan's fighting at the Battle of San Jacinto yelled "_____________" as they charged the Mexican Army.
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Remember the Alamo
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The crisis during Andrew Jackson's presidency that almost led to civil war was called the Nullification Crisis because...
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South Carolina tried to nullify the protective tariff and prevent the government from collecting in their ports
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The Trail of Tears were a result of...
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a desire for land in the Southeast that was owned by Native Americans at the time
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Clay's American System called for
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a protective tariff - a central national bank - better roads and transportation
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As industry grew factory owners began to worry more about production and less about
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the factory worker
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Which Act of Congress pushed Native Americans from their homes in the East to reservations in the West?
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Indian Removal Act
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Why was the South angry about the protective tariff on English goods
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They were selling less cotton to England because of it
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Which issue did Andrew Jackson show a split view of during the Nullification Crisis and The Indian Removal Act?
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State's rights vs. Federal Government Power
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The Mexican American War established...
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the border for Texas to be at the Rio Grande - Texas was independent from Mexico and could join the United States
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The journey to Oregon Territory took...
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five months
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While the North was looking to expand industry the South had to find ways to get more land because they economy remained mainly
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agricultural
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