8th US History Spring Exam Review

The 14th amendment did which of the following?

What happened at Appommatox Courthouse?

The cotton gin led to an expansion of slavery in the South because

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

Hiram Rhodes was the 1st African American to?

This invention by Robert Fulton made shipping of goods cheaper and faster.

15th Amendment

The US paid $15 million for these lands during Thomas Jefferson's presidency, doubling the size of the U.S.

Which invention by Eli Whitney helped the development of the factory system?

The Lewis and Clark expedition helped create a map to the Pacific Ocean & decribed the plants & animals along the route.

Lincoln's goal during the Civil War was to what?

Why did Irish immigrants come to America?

Maine would join as a free state, Missouri as a slave state in the Compromise of 1850.

Hudson River School

This was network of safe places and citizens who were willing to assist runaway slaves north to freedom.

This former slave & publisher of the North Star was the foremost African-American of the 19th century.

Beginning in 1849, many people came to California in search of what?

__ wrote an anti-slavery novel that increased sectionalism before the Civil War. 

What did the Erie Canal connect?

The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 was important because it

California would join as a free state & the south got the Fugitive Slave Law in the Missouri Compromise.

This area was annexed by Congress in 1845.

What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony were leaders of the

Women and children working in factories, cities growing which caused health & sanitation problems.

What was the Freedmen's Bureau?

What does the 13th Amendment do?

How did the Compromise of 1850 settle the dispute of sectionalism?

The woman who worked to reform American prisons and care for the mentally ill.

What was one long-term consequence of the sharecropping system?

What was the seige of Vicksburg

The US paid Mexico $15 million for this territory following the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo.

A tax on imported goods is called a ___.

What is "Manifest Destiny"

This land was added to the territory of the US by the Adams-Onis Treaty in 1819.

This invention by Samuel Morse made communication much faster.

The US paid Mexico $10 million for this land in 1853 on which to build a trans-continental railroad.

What were the Jim Crow Laws?

Where did the Civil War begin?