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21 Cards in this Set
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What was the American System?
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Henry Clay's idea to create roads and canals in the West to make the U.S. more independent economically.
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The steam engine was added to what 2 forms of transportation?
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Steamboats and Railroads
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Women's Rights activists fought for what right?
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suffrage (right to vote)
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The U.S.'s earliest factories created what products?
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textiles (thread into cloth, and cloth into clothing)
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Other than the cotton gin, what were two other business or farming inventions?
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steam engine, telegraph, sewing machine, mechanical reaper, steel plow
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What did the U.S. have that attracted immigrants from countries all over the world in the 1800's?
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factory jobs, land, and freedom
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What early U.S. law created mandatory public schools and outlawed slavery?
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Northwest Territory and Ordinance
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Which immigrants to America took the Middle Passage by ship across the Atlantic Ocean?
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African slaves
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How did the cotton gin affect the South?
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it increased cotton growing and slavery
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industrial society =
agricultural society = |
people live in cities and work in factories
people live in the country and farm |
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How was the South's social structure rigid?
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People couldn't move up in class.
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What was the purpose of African folktales?
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to share their culture with their children
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According to the Wilmot Proviso (1848), what should not be allowed in the Mexican Cession (land taken from Mexico)?
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slavery
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What compromises added new states to the U.S. and temporarily solved problems between the North and South in 1820 and 1850?
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Missouri Compromise and Compromise of 1850
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How did John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry affect the North and the South?
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it increased the confict between them
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What did Lincoln's "House Divided" speech mean?
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the U.S. can not continue half slave and half free
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Which U.S. Compromise did the Supreme Court say was unconstitutional in its Dred Scott decision?
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Missouri Compromise
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What is nullification?
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because of states' rights, any state could nullify or reject any federal law it believed to be unconstitutional
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What was President Lincoln's goal when he took office in 1861?
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reunite the country
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Which Civil War battle was the turning point of the war because the South could only fight defensively after it?
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Battle of Gettysburg
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Which Civil War battle ended the war, with General Lee surrendering to General Grant?
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Appomattox Courthouse
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