People Inventions Groups Compromises/Treaties Vocab
100
What is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
100
What is the telegraph?
E. B. Morse invented this
100
What is the Whig party?
Everyone in this party hated Andrew Jackson
100
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Missouri added to south while Mane was added to North 36, 30
100
What is Black Codes
rules designed to tie freed blacks to their owners
200
What is Carnegie?
Owner of steel company
200
What is the Cumberland Road?
Ran the distance from Western Maryland to Illinois.
200
What is the KKK?
Terrorist group to bring back white power in the South
200
What is Florida Purchase Treaty?
Coded Florida and claims to Oregon in exchange for Texas with the Mexicans.
200
What is a nativist?
Did not like immigrants. Examples: Know Nothing Party andthe Old Star Spangled Banner.
300
What is John Deere?
Invented the steel plow
300
What is the Eerie Canal?
Connected the Great Lakes to the Hudson River
300
What is the Free Soil party?
Party in support of the Wilmot Proviso. Was Antislavery. Candidate was Martin Van Buron. Foreshadowed the republican party.
300
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
stated 50% of voters would take oath to the Union and safeguards for the freed blacks would be put in place.
300
What is the Spoil System?
Put supporters of the President in office.
400
What is John D. Rockefeller?
President of Standard Oil Company
400
What is the steamboat?
invented in 1860. Could travel both ways on rivers and streams.
400
What is sharecroppers?
Blacks who worked on farms but were not slaves were called this.
400
What is the Free port Doctrine?
Stephan Douglas is cornered by Lincoln in debates and says popular sovereignty can keep slavery out.
400
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
Runaway slaves were to be returned to the state or territory from which they had escaped.
500
What is Stephan Douglas?
Father of Popular Sovereignty
500
What is the telephone?
Alexander Bell invented this
500
What isa Union?
Workers who got together to strike out against business owners.
500
What is the Sherman's Anti-Trust Act?
Congress used this to make Unions illegal.
Forbid: Pools, interlocking directorates, holding comapnies
500
What is vertical/horizontal integration?
buying out businesses involved with your product/ expanding your company.






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