US Unit 4.1

What impact did the cotton gin have on the South's economy?

• it increased the South's dependence on slave labor
• It decreased the South's dependence on foreign trade.
• It led to the end of the plantation system.
• It made the South more industrialized than the North.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Seneca Falls Conference

• abolition
• the Second Great Awakening
• women's suffrage
• education reform

Jacksonian Democracy can BEST be described as

• government that favors an elite few.
• representative government in which property owners are the only ones that vote
• a system of government in which even poorer white men have a voice in their government.
• democracy based on equality, regardless of social standing, gender or race.

In the 1800s, the U.S. built a number of roads, canals, railroads, etc.  Such projects represented advancements in the nation's 

• politics
• infrastructure
• national security
• public education.

Andrew Jackson would have been MOST supportive of

• a slave's right to freedom
• the Whig party
• white frontiersmen having a voice in politics
• women's suffrage

What effect did the Erie Canal have?

• It hurt New York because other cities could better compete with it economically.

• It discouraged western migration.

• Steam-powered boats were no longer useful because the canal encouraged land travel

• New York’s economy grew because the canal allowed manufacturers to ship products more easily.

Which phrase correctly describes the goal of abolitionism?

• To gradually eliminate slavery while providing the Southern economy time to adjust

• To maintain the balance between free states and slave states to preserve the Union

• To relocate slaves to colonies in Africa where they could avoid racial discrimination

• To immediately end slavery without compensation to Southern slaveholders

The goal to expand trade to the interior of the U.S. using canals and roads is a result of

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• Erie Canal

• Suffrage Rights

• Tariffs

• American System

The idea of Public education is credited to whom

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• Dortha Dix

• Horace Mann

• Henry Clay

• James k. Polk

THe Nullification Crisis concerned...

• Whether the President had the power to assasinate people

• Whether States could cancel out federal laws they didnt like

• Alliances with foreign powers

• Slavery