JEOPARDY $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 Immigration Let’s talk about Reforms Sectional Balance Abolition Slavery

100 Immigration What two groups composed the biggest immigrants in the U.S. in the mid 1800s?

100 Immigration Germans and Irish

200 Immigration Why were people from Europe coming to America in the mid 1800s?

200 Immigration Economic and political hardships at home.

300 Immigration Where were most immigrants settling during the mid 1800s?

300 Immigration Northeast Cities

400 Immigration What group formed due to the rise of immigrants in the mid 1800s?

400 Immigration Nativists

500 Immigration What emerges during the early 1800s that allowed immigrants coming America a whole new way of life?

500 Immigration Emergence of Market Economy

100 Reforms What brought on so many reforms in the 1800s?

100 Reforms 2 nd Great Awakening

200 Reforms The expansion of the Market economy was brought on by…

200 Reforms Improvement of transportation and availability of goods

300 Reforms Transcendentalist believed that all knowledge came through…

300 Reforms Inner light

400 Reforms This new political party believed in banning slavery only in the new territories.

400 Reforms Free Soilers

500 Reforms The ladies met at this convention in 1848, to discuss equal rights to men and create the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions

500 Reforms Seneca Falls Convention

100 Sectional Balance A major consequence of American expansion West was…

100C Answer Further sectional disagreement and failure to compromise

200 Sectional Balance To justify slavery, political Leaders like John Calhoun, espoused that Who was on their side?

200 Sectional Balance God, the Bible

300 Sectional Balance What helped “balance” the U.S. before the Mexican American War?

300 Sectional Balance Missouri Compromise

400 Sectional Balance What increased sectional tensions post 1850?

400 Sectional Balance Increased opportunities in the West.(Increasing westward movement therefore sectional divide)

500 Sectional Balance the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable

500 Sectional Balance Manifest Desitiny

100 Abolition Who worked toward Abolition through Government?

100 Abolition Fredrick Douglas

200 Abolition Who fought for end of slavery with more extreme measures and wanted it ended NOW?

200 Abolition William Lloyd Garrison

300 Abolition What sparked the Abolition movement?

300 Abolition The 2 nd Great Awakening

400 Abolition What group most likely supported the abolition movement?

400 Abolition Women’s suffragists

500 Abolition What would opponents of Abolition argue?

500 Abolition Social institution, God/Bible supports it, Making slaves better people

100 Slavery The south became cotton king because of this invention.

100 Slavery Cotton Gin

200 Slavery Most slaves were owned by whom??

200 Slavery By small plantation owners.

300 Slavery Slaves fought the system by doing what?

300 Slavery Slowing down work, sabotaging equipment and work done, pilfering goods

400 Slavery The South's export of cotton accounted for how much of the US exports and how much of Britain's supply?

400 Slavery U.S. Exports: 50% Britain’s Supply: 75%

500 Slavery These states were part of the “Black Belt”

500 Slavery South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Georgia