Social Studies Sectionalism Flashcards

15 cards   |   Total Attempts: 189
  

Cards In This Set

Front Back
Question 1
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Answer 1
Pro-slavery and Anti-slavery voters fight
Question 2
Seneca Falls Convention
Answer 2
Women meet to discuss Women's Rights
Question 3
Temperance
Answer 3
Against Alcohol
Question 4
Texas
Answer 4
Annexation, leads to Border Dispute
Question 5
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Answer 5
Ends Mexican War
Question 6
Compromise of 1850
Answer 6
California Enters as a Free State and Fugitive Slave Act is passed
Question 7
Abolitionists
Answer 7
Against Slavery
Question 8
Harriet Tubman
Answer 8
Conductor on the Underground Railroad
Question 9
Gold Rush
Answer 9
Population / economic boom in the West
Question 10
Mexican Cession
Answer 10
Land gained from Mexican War
Question 11
Bessemer Steel Process
Answer 11
Cheap steel for railroad tracks
Question 12
Transcontinental Railroad
Answer 12
Connects markets
Question 13
Gadsden Purchase
Answer 13
Land purchased to build a railroad. Last piece added.
Question 14
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Answer 14
Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, Abolitionist movement grows
Question 15
Manifest Destiny
Answer 15
Heading West, occupy continent