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What did the North focus on during the abolition movement?

The containment of the South (not westward expansion).

What were the main inventions during the Industrial Revolution?

Spinning Jenny, Water Frame, Power Iron, Interchangeable Parts.

What did the Industrial Revolution increase?

Advance in the textile industry.

Where was the industrial industry focused in?

The North.

What was the cotton gin?

A machine that picked seeds out of short-staple cotton plants.

Because of the cotton gin, what was the rise of profit?

6000 percent.

What did the cotton gin increase?

Slave labor.

What was the most significant part of transportation?

Railroad.

Where was the railroad linked?

From the West to the East.

During the 1840s, how many miles of railroads were in the U.S.?

3000 miles.

What did the Erie Canal connect?

Great Lakes and Hudson River.

Because of the links in the Erie Canal… ?

Rochester and Syracuse were created as cities

What was the Market Revolution?

A shift from a producer culture to a consumer culture: buying and selling goods, people working outside of their homes.

What did the Market and Industrial Revolution do?

Moved people from rural (farmland) to the city (urban).

Did the North favor tariffs?

Yes, because they were industrialized.

Did the South favor tariffs?

No, because they were agricultural.

To the South, what was the most important part of the economy?

Slaves.

What was the main issue between the North and South?

Slavery.

What was Gibbons v. Ogden?

The Supreme Court upheld broad Congressional power to regulate interstate commerce (federal law takes precedence over state law).

What did the Monroe Doctrine state?

The United States wanted to keep the policy of isolationism

What was the Republican virtue in the new American culture?

Self-reliance, hard work, frugality, harmony, sacrifice.

What was the Second Great Awakening caused by?

Social change, breaking of movement, family bonds, and isolation.

Did the Second Great Awakening continue the Enlightenment principles of the Founding Fathers?

No, they felt it wasn't necessary.

What did the Second Great Awakening affect?

Women’s movement, temperance movement, prison reform, and abolition movement.

Where was there a development during the Second Great Awakening?

African Methodist Episcopal Church, Mormons, Protestants.

Where did the Mormons settle?

Utah.

What is Transcendentalism?

Relies on individualism, self-reliance, and breeds hostility to authority.

Who is Henry David Thoreau?

Author of "Walden," describing his experiment in simple living.

What was the Temperance Movement?

A movement to end the production and consumption of alcohol.

What was the Education Movement?

Belief that lack of public education was a threat to democracy

What was the Abolition Movement?

A movement to abolish slavery.

Where were most slaves born in 1860?

The United States of America.

What was slow in the North?

Abolition, because of economic stake.

Why were people scared to free the slaves?

They feared slaves would compete with labor.

Part of the Abolition Movement was to move the slaves where?

Back to Africa, in Liberia.

What was the Underground Railroad?

A hidden network to help slaves escape to freedom.

What kind of necessity tied the North and South?

Economic.

What was the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848?

A women’s rights convention that sought greater equality (attended by men too, such as Frederick Douglass).

What ties the South to states’ rights?

Slavery.

What was the Irish Potato Famine?

Mass starvation in Ireland that forced many Irish to emigrate.

Why did the Irish come to the United States?

Potato famine.

Why did the Germans come to the United States?

Political reasons.

What did the rise of immigration lead to?

Nativism.

What was Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

A book that showed how cruel slavery was and that slaves were real people.

Why was Uncle Tom’s Cabin written?

To show the cruelty of slavery.

Where was Uncle Tom’s Cabin favored?

In the North (the South disliked it).

Who won the election of 1856?

James Buchanan.

Who was Dred Scott?

A slave who lived in Illinois and Wisconsin for five years.

Why couldn’t Congress deprive slaveholders of their property?

Because of the 5th Amendment, meaning slaves could not be taken away.

What was the Missouri Compromise?

Kept balance in Congress by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state

How long did the Missouri Compromise last?

34 years.

What was the Compromise of 1850?

California entered as a free state

How long did the Compromise of 1850 last?

8 months.

What was the Fugitive Slave Act?

Part of the Compromise of 1850

Who helped with the Compromise of 1850?

Henry Clay.

How did the Compromise of 1850 make Southerners feel?

Unhappy.

What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Allowed Kansas and Nebraska to decide on slavery by popular sovereignty

Kansas was a…

Slave state.

Nebraska was a…

Free state.

The violence between the North and South in Kansas led to the name…?

“Bleeding Kansas.”

The violence caused an outbreak that led to what?

The Civil War (which also became the American Civil War).