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U.S. History
The invention and its
inventor that made
cotton the profitable
cash crop of the South
Who was Eli Whitney
and the invention of the
cotton gin?
The state which had a
preview of the Civil War
in 1854 when Congress
attempted to allow their
citizens to vote on the
issue of slavery
What was
Kansas?
The crisis caused when South
Carolina declared they
wouldn’t pay the 1832 Tariff,
as well as threatening to
secede if the federal
government tried to enforce it
What was the
Nullification Crisis?
The law requiring the North
to return runaway slaves to
their owners-as a result
many fled to Canada to
escape being sent back
What was the Fugitive
Slave Law?
The argument used by the
colonists in protest of the
taxes imposed by the British
after the French and Indian
War
What was “no
taxation without
representation?”
A tax on imports
designed to protect new
industries which were
primarily in the North-it
hurt the South who had
to import goods
What was a protective
tariff?
The major cash crop
of the South which led
to the increase of
slave labor and the
desire for more fertile
land to the West
What was cotton?
Prior to the Civil War,
the area of the United
States where most of the
major cities were located
due to industrialization
Where was the Northeast
section of the United
States?
The social change
desired by Elizabeth
Cady Stanton and
Lucretia Mott
What was women’s rights?
The author of Uncle
Tom’s Cabin which
was a strong
abolitionist novel
published before the
Civil War
Who was Harriet
Beecher Stowe?
The ex-slave who led
many slaves to
freedom on the
“Underground
Railroad”
Who was Harriet
Tubman?
The woman who
worked to secure
better treatment for
the mentally ill and
inmates in prison
Who was Dorothea
Dix?
The river Lewis and
Clark followed
through the Oregon
Territory to the
Pacific Coast
What was the
Columbia River?
Two major barriers
that a settler would
have to cross to get to
California during the
Gold Rush era
What were the Rocky
Mountains and the
desert of the
Southwest?
The region of colonies
characterized by small
towns, fishing,
shipbuilding and
forestry
What were the New
England colonies?
The territory acquired after
the U.S. victory over
Mexico that became the
states of N.M., Arizona,
Colorado, Nevada, Utah,
and California
What was the
Mexican Cession?
The name of the first
steamboat built in the U.S.
by Robert Fulton-greatly
increased the speed of
water travel
What was the
Clermont?
Besides the cotton gin, the
other major contribution to
industrialization by Eli
Whitney
What was
interchangeable parts?
Samuel Morse and
Alexander G. Bell’s
inventions that greatly
improved
communication
What was the
telegraph (Morse) and
the telephone (Bell)?
The war in which the
first ironclad ships
were used; this
doomed the wooden
fleet
What was the Civil
War?
Merrimac-South
Monitor-North
The reform movement
designed to prohibit
the consumption of
alcoholic beverages
What was the
Temperance
Movement?
The radical abolitionist who
was involved in both
“Bleeding Kansas” and the
raid for guns at Harper’s
Ferry, Virginia
Who was John
Brown?
The Supreme Court case
that established the court’s
right of judicial review
(reviewing a law’s
constitutionality)
What was
Marbury v.
Madison?
The purpose of each
of the post Civil War
Amendments
What was the
13th-Abolish slavery
th
14 -Grant citizenship and equal
protection of the law
th
15 -Grant the right to vote to
male citizens?