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