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What was the American System?
Henry Clay's idea to create roads and canals in the West to make the U.S. more independent economically.
The steam engine was added to what 2 forms of transportation?
Steamboats and Railroads
Women's Rights activists fought for what right?
suffrage (right to vote)
The U.S.'s earliest factories created what products?
textiles (thread into cloth, and cloth into clothing)
Other than the cotton gin, what were two other business or farming inventions?
steam engine, telegraph, sewing machine, mechanical reaper, steel plow
What did the U.S. have that attracted immigrants from countries all over the world in the 1800's?
factory jobs, land, and freedom
What early U.S. law created mandatory public schools and outlawed slavery?
Northwest Territory and Ordinance
Which immigrants to America took the Middle Passage by ship across the Atlantic Ocean?
African slaves
How did the cotton gin affect the South?
it increased cotton growing and slavery
industrial society =

agricultural society =
people live in cities and work in factories

people live in the country and farm
How was the South's social structure rigid?
People couldn't move up in class.
What was the purpose of African folktales?
to share their culture with their children
According to the Wilmot Proviso (1848), what should not be allowed in the Mexican Cession (land taken from Mexico)?
slavery
What compromises added new states to the U.S. and temporarily solved problems between the North and South in 1820 and 1850?
Missouri Compromise and Compromise of 1850
How did John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry affect the North and the South?
it increased the confict between them
What did Lincoln's "House Divided" speech mean?
the U.S. can not continue half slave and half free
Which U.S. Compromise did the Supreme Court say was unconstitutional in its Dred Scott decision?
Missouri Compromise
What is nullification?
because of states' rights, any state could nullify or reject any federal law it believed to be unconstitutional
What was President Lincoln's goal when he took office in 1861?
reunite the country
Which Civil War battle was the turning point of the war because the South could only fight defensively after it?
Battle of Gettysburg
Which Civil War battle ended the war, with General Lee surrendering to General Grant?
Appomattox Courthouse