Chapter 9 Amsco Terms Flashcards

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