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HISTORY STANDARD 7
STANDARD 7
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| In the Antebellum era (1800-1840) what happened to the economy | the economy grew rapidly |
| Who invented the cotton gin | Eli Whitney |
| What is the cotton gin | MACHINE invented by Eli Whitney that makes it easy to remove the seeds from cotton. |
| what did the cotton gin do | made it easy to refine cotton/ (remove the seeds from cotton)/ it made cotton more profitable |
| what does King Cotton mean | Cotton was the dominant (main) cash crop of the Deep South |
| who was the Cotton King | the deep south |
| what are the effects of King Cotton | * increase in westward expansion * increase in slavery |
| What led to an Industrial Revolution in the North | Eli Whitney's development of interchangeable parts and new textile technologies |
| what did Samuel Slater do | He built the first American Factories using British Industrial designs |
| Most famous textile mill | Lowell Mill located in Boston |
| Lowell Mill employed young women | Lowell girls |
| Northern Factories mass produced | textiles, farm equipment and other finished goods |
| the growth of factories lead to increase in: | American cities (urbanization), jobs, Europeans moving to the U.S |
| immigrants worked in | low paying New England factories or moved west as farmers |
| rapid immigration led to hostility and prejudice by native born Americans called | Nativism |
| Nativist were worried that immigrants would | vote, remain poor and become a social burden and that catholic immigrants would remain loyal to the Pope |
| the Know Nothing Party | formed in the 1850s, to restrict immigration and limit immigrant voting rights |
| Population growth and land opportunities led to | rapid growth of the West |
| New technologies made | Large scale farming in the west possible |
| The South, North, and West became connected into a | National market Economy |
| Henry Clay | Created the American System that helped connect the South, North and West |
| the American System | 1. created a Tariff to promote Northern industry, 2. Second Bank-investments and regulation over U.S bank system 3. National funding for Transportation |
| Erie Canal | *first major link between the East and West * because of increased trade- New York City became the commercial capital of the U.S. |
| The Second Great Awakening | a series of religious revivals |
| Charles Finney | Evangelical minister - used soul shaking sermons to covert people |
| Joseph Smith | created the Mormon church |
| Temperance | one of the first reform movements to get people to stop drinking |
| Horace Mann- | "Father of American Education" helped create teacher training and curriculum programs |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | organized women's rights meeting called the Seneca Falls Convention |
| Declaration of sentiments | a list of demands for the rights of women- property rights, right to vote |
| The North began to see slavery as | immoral and wanted to abolish slavery |
| Abolitionism | the desire to emancipate all slaves |
| abolition was more popular in the | North |
| William Lloyd Garrison | Leading Abolitionist founder of American Anti-Slave Society author of The Liberator- newsletter |
| Frederick Douglas | runaway slave popular anti-slavery speaker author of NorthStar news letter |
| Male Suffrage: | by 1840 most states removed voting restrictions ; 90% of common white men could vote |
| John Adams- election of 1824 | did not win the election by majority of electoral vote. Henry Clay help influence win with House of Representatives |
| Andrew Jackson- election of 1828 | won election by 178-83 (majority vote) "Common Man" president he was poor, uneducated and from the west War Hero |
| Jackson's 2 party system | Jackson split the Democratic-Republicans into the Democratic party and the Whigs party |
| Jacksonian Democracy | Jackson and his supporters hoped to return to the Jeffersonian ideas of STATES RIGHTS, protection of liberty and westward expansion |
| Jackson sought to weaken | congress |
| Jackson helped to expand voting rights to | all adult white males |
| opposition to Jackson led to | the formation of the Whig party |
| the spoils system | to give government positions to the loyal supporters or followers of the politician. Jackson supported this system ** over time this led to inefficiency and government corruption |
| Indian removal act | signed by Jackson to force all Indian tribes to relocate/ move west of the Mississippi |
| Trail of Tears | the difficult journey of the Indian tribes when they were forced to move west |
| Nullify means to | Ignore |
| nullification Crisis | When South Carolina threatened to nullify unfair federal taxes |
| Secede (secession) means | to withdraw from |
| because of unfair tariffs, the south used 'states rights' | to argue secession from the union |
| Jackson thought the U.S. bank | was unconstitutional and gave too much power to the elite |
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