A | B |
Mainly Rual | South |
Mainly Urban | North |
slave labor | Type of labor that was the baisis of the economy of the South |
Industrial | Economy of the North |
Agricultural | An economy based on the production of plants (found mainly in the South) |
plantations | Large farms found mainly in the South |
factories | Industries where goods are manufactored (Located mainly in the North) |
farming to live | What free poor or non wealthy did in the South |
Working in plants and factories | What poor or non wealthy did in the North |
Large immigartation population | Mainly settled in the North near factories where their was a need for skill and unskilled workers |
Large number of railroads | More concentrated in the North to bring finished goods to market |
More areas of fast moving streams | One of the main reasons factories were located in the NOrth instead of the South |
When a politician favors his region of the country over antoher regionor the country as a whole | Sectionalism |
Had more Industry | North |
Had more farms | South |
Had a larger population | North |
Had more immigrants | North |
Had more roads and canals | North |
Had longer growing seasons | South |
Was more Rual | South |
Had more Cities | North |
Germans come to america for this reason | Political COnflict |
Irish came to America for what reason | Potato Famine |
Something that makes you leve your country when you would have liked to stay | Push Factor |
Something that attracts you to another country | Pull factor |
Politicall party formed in America that wanted to end immigration | Know Nothing Party |
Where id the Industrial Revolution begin | England |
A period of rapid growth in business and Industry. When people moved from cottage industries to factories | Industrial Revolution |
When goods are made in homes by hand | Cottage Industry |
INventor of the water frame | Richard Akwright |
Memorized the construction of plants and moved to America and built the first one | Samuel Slater |
The inventor of the Cotton Gin and interchangeable parts | Eli Whitney |
The first full sized steamboat | Claremont |
The first full sized steamboat inventor | Robert Fulton |
Inventor of Morse Code and the Telegraph | Samuel F.B. Morse |
Inventor of the Mechanical reaper | Cyrus McCormick |
Inventor of the steel plow | John Deere |
Thjis machine separated cotton seed from the cotton ball and made slavery profitable | Cotton Gin |
The first National Road | Cumberland Road |
Canal that connected the Hudson river to the great lakes and made New York a major port | Erie Canal |
The invention of the steam locamotive gave rise to what industry? | Coal used for fuel |
System by which young farm girls were hired to work in factories | Lowell System |
System by which whole families were used to work in factories | Rhode Island System |
The process by which a person who is not a citizen becomes a citizen | Naturalization |
A member of our country | Citizen |
A citizen gives our government loyality. What does the government do in return? | Promises to protect them and their rights |
A person born in the United States or born to parents who are citizens is what type of citizen? | Natural born citizen |
How old must a person be to apply for citizenship | 18 |
To become a citizen a person must be able to read and write what? | English |
To apply for citizenship a person must be a legal resident for how many years? | 5 |
To be a citizen a person must prove they have an understanding ow what? | Our History and Government (they take test) |
The Hero of the common man | Andrew Jackson |
A system created by Jackson in which political supporters are rewarded with government jobs | Spoils System |
Political party founded by Jackson's supporters after the election of 1824 | Democraticparty |
Unofficial advisers of Andrew Jackson | Kitchen Cabinet |
Two examples of sectionalism under Jackson | Northern atempt to stop the sale of government land to keep workers from moving west and High tariffs passed by Congress to protect Northern factories from outside competition |
Southern name for a protective tariff passed by congress on imported goods | Tariff of Abominations |
Jackson's Vice President, wrote South Carolina Exposition and protest | John C. Calhoun |
The idea that since the states made the fedeal government the sates should be superior to it | States Rights Theory |
The idea that states had the right to not obey a law pssed by the federal government if they chose to do so | nullification |
Occured when Maryland attempted to pass a tax on a branch of the federal bank operating in Maryland and the bank refused to pay it. Supreme Court said they did not have to (case) | McCullough vs Maryland |
The belif that people could rise above material possessions | Tancedentalism |
Ideal communities | Utopian |
A time when Americans again focused on religion after the Industrial Revoltion | Second Great Awakening |
Movement to stop the drinking of Alcohol | Temperance movement |
Lady that led the movement to improve the treatment of the mentally ill and prisions | Doretha Dix |
The idea that children should all be taught in the same place | Common School movement |
The leader of the common school movement | Horace Mann |
People that wanted to end slavery everywhere | Abolistionist |
Escaped slave who bought his own freedom, he became a leading abolistionsit and editor of the North Star | Fredrick Douglass |
Leading abolitionist he was the editor of an abolitionist newspaper the North Star | William Lloyd Garrison |
Former slave that poke out against slavery saying "God told her to tell the truth" about it | Sojourner Truth |
The leader of the Underground Railroad | Harriet Tubman |
A series of safe house and paths through which slaves escaped from the Nrth to the South | Underground Railroad |
The right to vote | Sufferage |
The movement to give women the right to vote end toend injustice to women | Woman's suffrage movement |
A meeting (attended by men and women) that met about women's rights | Seneca Falls Convention |
Document produced at the Seneca Falls Convention that outlined the injustices women faced in America | Declaration of Sentiments |
Act passed by congress that allowed the areas of Kansas and Nebraska to vote for themselves if they wanted to be a slave or free state | Kansas Nebraska Act |
The idea that people rule or decide for themselves | Popular soverginty |
The term given to the area of Kansas and Nebraska after people after pro and anti slavery people rushed in to influence the vote on slave or free and violence broke out | "Bleeding Kansas |
Abolitionist who attacked a federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry Virginia in hopes of inciting a slave revolt | John Brown |
The compromise proposed by Henry Clay that allowed California to come into the Union as a free state and llowed the rest of the Mexican secession to decide for themselves (popular sovereignty) | Compromise of 1850 |