Unit 3 Vocab

Question 1

`Sectionalism

Answer 1

Loyalty to ones “section”, states felt grouped together

Question 2

Market Revolution

Answer 2

Factories and mass production replace independent artisans and craftsmen

Question 3

American System - Henry Clay

Answer 3

3 part system with Infrastructure, a National Bank, and protective tariffs

Question 4

King Cotton

Answer 4

The nickname for cotton because it was such a powerful crop

Question 5

Jacksonian Democracy

Answer 5

Gave all white men the right to vote, taking away the requirement of owning property

Question 6

Jackson’s Bank War

Answer 6

the name given to the campaign Andrew Jackson began to dissolve the National Bank

Question 7

Nat Turners Rebellion

Answer 7

a rebellion of enslaved Virginians that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831.

Question 8

Factory system

Question 9

Lowell Mills

Question 10

Old Immigrants

Question 11

Manifest destiny

Answer 11

The right to move west

Question 12

Louisiana Purchase

Answer 12

Doubled the size of the US, 1803

Question 13

Monroe Doctrine

Question 14

Mexican American War

Question 15

Free Soilers

Question 16

Republican Party

Question 17

Missouri Compromise

Answer 17

Allowed Missouri to come in as a slave state and Maine is as free, determined free or slave by latitude, 36 30

Question 18

Compromise of 1850

Answer 18

Brought California in as a free state, Utah / New Mexico decides by pop. sov, and fugitive slave act gets enforced

Question 19

Fugitive Slave Law

Answer 19

Any escaped slaves must be returned to their rightful owners

Question 20

Kansas-Nebraska Acts

Answer 20

Allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to vote to determine if they should be free states or slave states

Question 21

Dred Scott Case

Answer 21

Ruled that slaves were property and they could be brought into free states. Struck down the Missouri compromise because there was no longer a difference between north and south states

Question 22

Raid on Harpers Ferry

Answer 22

A raid of a weapons arsenal to give to slaves for a revolt.

Question 23

Manufacturing

Question 24

Steamboats

Question 25

Railroads

Question 26

Telegraph

Answer 26

The first instant communication, developed by Samuel Morse, utilized Morse code .._..__..

Question 27

Cotton Gin

Answer 27

Invention by Eli Whitney, removed seeds from cotton, increased need for slaves dramatically

Question 28

Seneca Falls Convention

Question 29

Declaration of Sentiments

Question 30

Abolition Movement

Answer 30

Movement to end slavery

Question 31

Indian Removal Act

Answer 31

Jackson passed this to move all native Americans west of the Mississippi

Question 32

Trail of Tears

Answer 32

The several thousand mile walk that 17,00 natives were forced to march as a result of the Indian Removal Act

Question 33

Worcester V Georgia

Question 34

American /Know-Nothing Party

Answer 34

anti-immigrant & anti-Catholic; secret handshakes and passwords, when asked what they believe they’d answer “I know nothing” Nativism – American born citizens; distrust of immigrants.

Question 35

Whig Party

Answer 35

Took place of Federalists, rich white northerners that focused on industrialization. Opposed Manifest Destiny and removal of native Americans.

Question 36

Democratic Party

Answer 36

love immigrants, divided on the issue of slavery

Question 37

Liberty Party

Answer 37

Abolitionists - Very small group with little chance of winning

Question 38

Republican Party

Answer 38

Opposed expansion of slavery into the west. Abraham Lincoln.

Question 39

Assimilation

Answer 39

Being integrated into a new group

Question 40

Nationalism

Answer 40

Loyalty and a sense of belonging to ones nation

Question 41

Industialization

Answer 41

Expansion of industry and factory, got rid of lots of farming

Question 42

Nullification

Answer 42

states rights

Question 43

Northwest Ordinance

Answer 43

Process that outlined how to admit new states

Question 44

Suffrage

Answer 44

The right to vote