Chapter 7 Section 2

Match the following

• Lousiana Purchase

• The sale of land between the Mississippi River and the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mtns.

• Industrial Revolution

• A person who moves to a new country in order to settle there

• immigrant

• To set apart, typically because of race or religion

• segregate

• The change from making goods by hand to making them by machine

• abolitionists

• A person who believed that enslaving people was wrong and who wanted to end the practice

Why was the Louisiana Purchase important to the United States?

• It led to the War of 1812

• It doubled the size of the country

• It provided trade with France

• It increased the debt of the country

As new American states formed, they gave the right to vote to...

• all citizens

• all adult white males

• all men who owned property

• all women and African Americans

What statement best describes what Manifest Destiny meant to many Americans during the 1800s?

• The United States had a right to own land in Canada

• Americans deserved free education

• The United States should own the land between the Atlantic and the Pacific

• The United States was a new home for European immigrants

Why did some Southern states withdraw from the United States?

• They wanted to trade independently with England

• They wanted to abolish the Fugitive Slave Law

• They feared that slavery would become legal in Canada

• They feared they would have little say in government

What was the purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation?

• to begin Reconstruction

• to free enslaved African Americans

• to establish segregation

• to enable southern states to secede