popular sovereignty
The belief that states should be able to decide for themselves whether to allow slavery is called
Description | Match: |
Goal of a reform movement | Positive change |
List four cotton producing states | Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia |
The first state to secede the Union. | South Carolina |
The belief that states should be able to decide for themselves whether to allow slavery is called | popular sovereignty |
List the 5 key factors of enslaved entrepreneurship | Pursuit, Opportunity, Self Agency, Stress, Growing up in Poverty |
The Declaration of Sentiments written at the Seneca Falls Convention called for | equality for women |
Delegates at the Seneca Falls Convention compared the women's rights movement to | the American struggle for independence |
Girls growing up in America in the mid 1800's were not allowed to study these two subjects | Math and Science |
Name two things that women could NOT do in 1820 | vote, attend college, own property |
Name 3 women from this era who fought for women's rights | Sojourner Truth, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony... |
Southerners called for a law that would force the return of | fugitives |
Abolitionists were________to the success of the Underground Railroad. | vital |
_________treatment of criminals is guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution | humane |
During the Jackson administration, many Native Americans were _____________ of their homelands. | deprived |
The decision by the master to keep a slave family together could be described as | virtuous |
Give two reasons why some Northerners opposed abolition | profiting from slave labor, might lose their job to a black person |
Define utopian community. | a perfect community |
True or False...Divisions among Democrats led to the election of Abraham Lincoln | true |
What was the Supreme Court Decision regarding the slave Dred Scott? | slaves are property/treated as such |
How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act address the issue of slavery? | Slavery was an issue to be decided by residents of the states |
Give an example of discrimination | Answers will vary |
How did the Erie Canal change America? (2 ways) | increased trade and travel, created new towns, connected people to other communities |
Define civic engagement | Actions of citizens which impact society |
What was the Second Great Awakening? | Moving away from the belief in predestination to the belief in free will |
List three of Horace Mann's education reforms which are still in effect today. | school year, leveled classes, state board of education, secretary of education, standardized schools, public funding of schools, no corporal punishment |