| A | B |
|---|
| reformers | people who lead change in social problems in the 19th century |
| Mississippi River | major highway for trade in the United States |
| Second Great Awakening | religious revival which lead to social reforms |
| 1845 | The year Texas was annexed to the United States |
| 1803 | The year the Louisiana Purchase was acquired |
| 1861 | The year the Civil War started |
| Texas | Conflicts with Mexico over the annexation of this state |
| abolitionists | people who wished to abolish slavery |
| suffrage | voting rights |
| Northwest Ordinance | procedure for the admission of new territories to become states |
| manifest destiny | God-given right to expand westward to the Pacific Ocean |
| potato famine | Caused the Irish to migrate to the United States in the mid 19th century |
| cotton gin | invention which caused a huge demand and increase of slave labor |
| New Orleans | Acquired as a result of the Louisiana purchase and a major port for agricultural goods |
| Industrial Revolution | caused worker productivity to increase and manufacturers in the North to prosper |
| Transcontinental Railroad | connected the west to the east and increased settlement in the West |
| Fugitive Slave Act | returning of Fugitive Slaves which caused them to escape to Canada instead |
| Erie Canal | connected midwestern farmers to markets in the east |
