Unit 6 Review

The growth of cotton production spurred the demand for slaves in the Deep South.

Women at the Seneca Falls convention insisted that women have equal opportunities. They wanted the right to vote.

The Temperance Movement wanted to end _______________.

Railroads and steamships expanded the markets for American trade both internationally and nationally.

Slaveholding states insisted the federal government could not interfere with their “institution.”

Ordinary people elected sectional leaders like senators Calhoun (South), Webster (North), and Henry Clay (West).

Voters in 1860 chose between 4 candidates for president with hope to elect 1 that represented their ideas and values.

Southerners believed the tariff was the result of too much Federal power and states threatened to leave the union.

The Abolition Movement wanted to end _______________.

Abolitionists argued that slavery violated the natural rights of African Americans.

New immigrants that needed jobs worked in factories for little pay, and long workdays.

Immigrant factory workers were afraid to lose jobs if they demanded safe, healthy working conditions, given by the BOR's

Irish Americans often struggled with equal treatment. “Irish need not apply” was a common sign hung on business doors.

The "Declaration of Sentiments" argued that.....?

The cotton trade expanded during the years before the Civil War, with Americans selling much of their crop overseas.

Millions of immigrants from Ireland and Germany (among other places) came to the US during the 1830s and 1840s.

Prior to the Civil War we had a great variety of religious beliefs like Catholic, Protestant, Ancestor Worship, etc...