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These two things led to the creation of a national market economy in the US

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population and transportation

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Between these two years, a national market economy in the US burgeoned.

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1820 and 1860

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While an economic revolution created a national market for goods manufactured in the United States, it also began to sectionalize the regions of the country with regards to these two things.

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ideology and economic specialization

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While an economic revolution created a national market for goods manufactured in the United States, it also began to sectionalize the regions of the country with regards to these two things.

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ideology and economic specialization

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The West began known for growing this.

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grains

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The East emerged as this.

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industrial powerhouse

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These were abundant in the East.

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textile factories

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The plantation economy continued to grow in the South, owing to this invention.

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cotton gin

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Inventor of the Cotton Gin

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Eli Whitney

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Year of invention of the Cotton Gin

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1793

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These were the first transportation advance that served to link many of the towns in the eastern United States.

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Turnpikes

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This, built in the 1790s, spurred the building of many more toll roads across the United States.

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Lancaster Turnpike

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The most important toll road in the United States, which ultimately connected Maryland with Illinois.

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Cumberland Road

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Many turnpikes were built with these, as there was much opposition to the use of federal funds for internal improvements.

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private funds

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A historic canal that connects the Hudson River at Albany in eastern New York with the Niagara River and the Great Lakes. It opened in 1825.

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Eerie Canal

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This man promoted water transportation with his invention of the steamboat in 1807.

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Robert Fulton

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Robert Fultons invention.

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steamboat

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With the steamboat, goods and people could be transported this without relying on nature or brute strength.

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two ways

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Finally, this advent brought an ever cheaper method of transportation to the country and further connected the regions of the United States.

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railroad

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Due to the exciting developments in transportation, this division grew more distinct.

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rich and poor

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Due to the exciting developments in transportation, these created difficulties that would soon become the early stages of sectionalism.

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regional divisions

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Naturally, these two sections of the US were more closely connected because there was a linkage between the regions for improved transportation.

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East and West

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This region was largely cut off from the rest of the United States because the railroads rarely connected with this area.

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South

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In the mid-1840s, immigrants from these two places came to the United States.

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Ireland and Germany

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Reason for Irish immigrants

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potato famine

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Reasons for German immigrants

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tough economic and political conditions

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Between 1830 and 1860, these immigrants accounted for the single largest immigrant group.

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Irish

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The Irish were these two things, so they competed for jobs with native-borns Americans.

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Roman Catholic and poor

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German immigrants often settled here and maintained some Old World customs.

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western frontier

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Members of the backlash movement against Irish and German immigrants were known as these.

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nativists

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In 1849, an extreme wing of the nativist movement became a political party known as this.

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American Party

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Nickname for the American Party.

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Know-Nothing Party

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The Know-Nothing Party opposed this and the election of these to political office.

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immigration, Roman Catholics

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As industry began to develop in the North, the regions these began to experience massive expansion in their own right.

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cities

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Unfortunately, the nations urban areas were not prepared for such a sudden growth and suffered from these 3 things.

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overcrowding, disease, and crime rates

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The Old Northwest was closely tied to the industrial North by these things.

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rail lines and canals

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Economic regionalization in the Old Northwest was compromised of these crops.

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grain, corn and wheat

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This southern economy that is now synonymous with antebellum Southern culture was the main form of Southern economic life.

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cash crop

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The plantation/cash crop economy that is now synonymous with antebellum Southern culture was emboldened with this invention.

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cotton gin

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The cotton gin made the process of removing the seeds much easier and faster, making this the number one cash crop of the region.

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cotton

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The growing demand for the fiber from cotton led to a rapid increase in the demand for this.

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slaves

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A euphemism for slavery and the economic ramifications of it in the American South. The term aimed to explain away the seeming contradiction of legalized slavery in a country whose Declaration of Independence states that "all men are created equal". It was one of the key causes of the Civil War.

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peculiar institution

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The number of Africans in the South increased to this number in about 50 years.

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4 million

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Southerners often justified and defended their dependence on slaves by using this as a justification.

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Bible

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In some antebellum slave states, these were incorporated into the laws regulating enslaved Africans.

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Black Codes

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In some antebellum slave states, Black Codes were incorporated into the laws regulating enslaved Africans, which were known as these.

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Slave Codes

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Slave Codes were designed to do this to enslave Africans, discourage these from living in the south, and preventing these.

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oppressing, free blacks, slave revolts

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Slave life was arduous and dehumanizing, and was [not the/the] same from plantation to plantation.

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not the

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This was strictly forbidden for fear of slave revolts.

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Education

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Even under oppressive conditions, African Americans forged tight-knit communities that emphasized these three things.

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family, faith, and oral tradition

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Slaves were known to resist their masters through this, refusing to work or work slowly.

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passive resistance

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Social hierarchy of the South (6 items)

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large planters, planters, small slaveholders, non-slave holding European Americans, freed African Americans, enslaved Africans

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Most European American Southerners [did/did not] own slaves.

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did not

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Used to call poor Southern Whites by other segments of Southern society

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white trash

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Along the Appalachian and Ozark Mountains lived scattered farmers and hill people, many of this descent.

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German

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Along the Appalachian and Ozark Mountains lived scattered farmers and hill people, many of German descent. These people, called this, tended not to adopt traditional Southern cultural ways and felt more at ease with their Northern neighbors.

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hillbillies

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Native Americans who had been pushed west had settled in large numbers on this and caused great concern for European Americans settlers moving into the frontier.

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Great Plains

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Life was this for Western frontiers.

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difficult

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The West was unique in that citizens tended to be more open to this than their counterparts in either the North or South.

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change

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The growth of industry moved men out of the fields and into factories, while women were left to tend to these.

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home and children

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Children, too, became less important to the overall well-being of the family, as they were no longer required to do this.

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work the fields

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In the age of moral perfectibility, womens roles were clearly defined as homemakers and mothers--hence this.

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cult of domesticity

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Women also began to develop power within this movement and resent the second-class status even their fellow male abolitionists assigned them.

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antislavery

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These vehement abolitionists voiced their opposition to male dominance within the movement in 1837, thus starting a dialogue about womens roles.

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Sarah and Angelina Grimke

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These three women organized a meeting of feminists at Seneca Falls, New York, to discuss the plight of women in the United States.

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Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony

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Took place in upperstate New York in 1848. Women of all ages and even some men went to discuss the rights and conditions of women. There, they wrote the Declaration of Sentiments, which among other things, tried to get women the right to vote.

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Seneca Falls

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Encouraged and emboldened by their convention, the women at Seneca Falls drafted this, which was closely modeled after the Declaration of Independence, by declaring that "all men and women are created equal" and demanding true universal suffrage to include females as well as males.

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Declaration of Sentiments

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