What was the nations 1st women's rights convention?
Seneca Falls
The right to vote
Suffrage
A law guaranteeing many property rights for women
Married women's property act
Was the growth of the cotton kingdom in the south or north?
South
Was the growth of industrial production in the south or north?
North
What is the study of population?
Demography
What is the gadsden purchase?
when the united states gained land from mexico
What acted to end alcohol abuse?
Temperance movement
A former slave
freedman
What was the rule that prohibited discussion of slavery in congress?
Gag rule
What attracted american settlers to the mexican state of texas? And why?
Land policy, to increase tax revenue for the mexican government
What was the southern border of texas?
Rio grande river
Manifest Destiny
a belief in the 19th-century United States that White American settlers were destined to expand across North America
How did the US gain california and new mexico?
Treaty of Guadelupe-Hidalgo
What cut travel times in half?
Train
What was the technology created that made the cotton kingdom possible? Who made it?
Cotton gin, eli whitney
Which amendment ended slavery?
13th
Sharecropping
a legal arrangement with regard to agricultural land in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on that land.
A movement acting to end slavery
Abolition movement
Peonage act
passed to enforce the 13th Amendment's ban on “involuntary servitude.”
Who assassinated Lincoln?
John Boothe
To withdraw formally
secede
Where was the first shots of the civil war?
fort sumter
Party dedicated to stopping the spread of enslavement
Republicans
Congressional effort to remove a president from office
impeach
Mexican-American war hero
Zach Taylor
Proposal in the United States Congress to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican–American War.
The Wilmot Proviso
Military strategy proposed by Union General Winfield Scott early in the American Civil War.
Anaconda Plan
What required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state?
Fugitive Slave Act
Border state
slave states that border with the free states
Goods that are brought into or taken out of the country secretly and illegally
contraband