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| 232946065 | sectionalism | loyalty to a particular region; led to civil war in 1860 | 0 | |
| 232946066 | Commonwealth vs. Hunt | a case in Massachusetts that stated peaceful unions could negotiate labor contracts with employers | 1 | |
| 232946067 | Industrial Revolution | a revolution in economy in which the North manufactured and had an increased population | 2 | |
| 232946068 | Daniel Webster | said that the the divisions of the Union into North, South and West could tear apart the United States and could become dangerous | 3 | |
| 232946069 | urbanization and urban life | populations grew in the North and attracted even more people from other countries | 4 | |
| 232946070 | new cities | small villages such as Buffalo, Chicago and Detroit became large cities because they were key transportation points | 5 | |
| 232946071 | Irish and the potato famine | a potato famine drove many of the Irish to the United States and moved into the Northern states, and joined many politics and parties | 6 | |
| 232946072 | Germans | many came in the 40s and 50s and moved Westward; supporters of education and opponents of slavery | 7 | |
| 232946073 | Old Northwest | consisted of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota; came from land ceded to the national government; was unsettled but soon people inhabited | 8 | |
| 232946074 | immigration | reasons for immigration: 1) development of inexpensive ocean transportation, 2) famines and revolutions in Europe, 3) growing reputation of the United States | 9 | |
| 232946075 | Nativists | native-born Americans who didn't like the large number of immigrants | 10 | |
| 232946076 | American party | the Know-Nothing party that was anti-foreign and disliked immigrants | 11 | |
| 232946077 | King Cotton | the primary cash crop in the South that many people depended on; was now more affordable because of the cotton gin and slaves | 12 | |
| 232946078 | "the peculiar institution" | slavery; was called peculiar because slave owners knew this was wrong yet still defended it | 13 | |
| 232946079 | Denmark Vesey and Nat turner | two slaves that led slaves revolts against their slave owners | 14 | |
| 232946080 | slavery and free African-Americans | many African-Americans became free and stayed free; they moved to the North but still didn't have equal rights | 15 | |
| 232946081 | the West | the definition of the West keep changing because the United States kept expanding | 16 | |
| 232946082 | the frontier | the frontier constantly shifted, but the concept remained the idea of moving Westward and having a fresh start | 17 | |
| 232946083 | Native American removal | by 1850, the majority of Native Americans had to move West of the Mississippi River; this was only a temporary respite | 18 | |
| 232946084 | Great Plains | horses helped Native Americans get to the Great Plains; improved lives | 19 | |
| 232946085 | white settlers | these settlers lived on the Western frontier and in log cabins; led hardworking and boring lives | 20 | |
| 232946086 | environmental damage | exhausted the soil and trappers and hunters decimated the beaver and the buffalo to the brink of extinction | 21 |
