antebellum period

During the antebellum period, industry flourished in which region?

The North

Cotton Gin's impact

South: increased cotton crop production, increased slavery

North: developed American textile industry (1820s-1830s)

What tactics did the US use to acquire the Oregon Territory?

Achieved through Treaties & a threat of war from James Polk over the 54th Parallel line

When Texas applied for statehood it was controversial. Why?

It was a slave state.

How did America acquire California?

The Mexican War

Impact of Mexican War

Acquisition of new territories led to westward expansion and increased tension over the expansion of slavery.

This group opposed the Mexican War

Abolitionists

Manifest Destiny

1800s belief that Americans had the right to spread across the continent.

True or False, most southern whites were slave owners

False. Most were subsistence farmers

How did the north promote slavery?

Northern industries made money off of slavery & the slave trade

Which industries profited from slavery in the North?

Textiles, Banks, Insurance, Shipbuilding, Iron industry, Rum

What cash crop became "king" during the antebellum period?

Cotton

How did masters increase their control over enslaved Africans?

Strict rules = 1. no education, 2. could not leave plantation, 3. strict punishments

Explain the Triangular Trade

Manufactured goods sent from US/Europe to Africa in exchange for Africans

How was slavery defended during the antebellum period?

1. Slaves happy, 2. Protected by US Constitution, 3. Supported in Bible

Three abolitionist methods

1. Unground Railroad, 2. slave rebellions, 3. Arguing against slavery through speeches, newspapers, etc.

American Colonization Society

A Society that thought slavery was wrong. They would buy land in Africa so people of African descent could move there. One of these such colonies was made into what now is Liberia.

Santa Anna

Mexican general whose large army failed to defeat the Texans

Nat Turner

United States slave and insurrectionist who in 1831 led a rebellion of slaves in Virginia

Underground Railroad

a system of secret routes used by escaping slaves to reach freedom in the North or in Canada

Causes of Sectionalism during antebellum period

Industrialization, Slavery, Abolition

Adams-Onis Treaty

Agreement in which Spain gave up all of Florida to the United States

"54 forty or fight"

James Polk's threat to go to War w/Britain over the Oregon Territory