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What is the name of the age that ..
- 1870s-1900
- Era of rapid economic growth in North and West
- Followed Civil War and part of Reconstruction Era
Gilded Age
What is the name of the war that was a dispute between southern boundary of Texas?
US and Mexican War of 1846
What is the name of the dominant agricultural modal in post Civil War (After 1865) in South. Landowner allows tenant to use land in Reuter for share of crop produced on land?
Sharecropping System
What is the antebellum period?
Considered to be the period before the civil war and after the War of 1812
What is the antebellum period?
1790-1860
What crop is best to grow in lower South?
Cotton
__________ was an attempt to absolve slavery issue by admitting California as a free state but permitting slavery in the rest of the Southwest
Compromise of 1850
What crop was popularly grown in the north?
Wheat
____________ provided the means by which new states that were created in Western lands were admitted into the union.
Northwest ordinance of 1787
The Treaty of Guadeloupe marked the end of what war?
Mexican-American War
The Treaty of Guadeloupe led the _________ purchase.
Gadsden
After Texas gained independence from Mexico with the Treaty of Guadeloupe, they wanted to joint he US immediately. What happened?
Congress voted against Texas joining the Union.
What was the name of the agreement between the United States and Mexico, finalized in 1854, in which the United States agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for a 29,670 square mile portion of Mexico that later became part of Arizona and New Mexico.
Gadsen Purchase
Massive foreign immigration from Ireland and Germany greatly increased the size of the cities in the North during what period?
The Antebellum Period
In the South, what impeded the development of industry and cities and discourage technological innovation?
Slavery
What was the Dred Scott Decision?
Supreme Court rule that slave owners had the right to take their slaves into the Western territories,
There were 3 treaties of Paris.what 2 wars did they end?
French and Indian War (1763)
Revolutionary War (1783)
Spanish-American (1898)
What admitted California as a free state and abolished the slave trade in DC?
Compromise of 1850
What was the fugitive slave law 1850?
any federal marshal who did not arrest an alleged runaway slave could be fined $1,000.
During the Civil War, was the North or South more advanced?
North – The only advantage South had was that most battles were fought on their land.
The Pilgrims founded Plymouth Colony for religious reasons, but the Jamestown founders were mostly looking for _______ and _________.
Gold and adventure
Researchers believe that peopel arrived in America between:
A. 3,000 - 10,000 years ago
B. 15,000-30.000 years ago
C. 30,000 - 60,000 yrs ago
D. 80,000 - 100, 00 yrs ago
B. 15,000-30.000 years ago
____________ is a form of irregular warfare in which a small group of combatants such as armed civilians or irregulars use military tactics including ambushes, sabotage, raids, petty warfare, hit-and-run tactics, and mobility to fight a larger and less-mobile traditional military.
Guerilla warfare
The _______________ Act of 1867 laid out the process for readmitting southern states into the Union.
Reconstruction
