Study Guide I. United States Civil War: causes‚ course‚ and effects a. Cotton Economy and Slavery i. Cotton is King ii. Conditions of enslavement 1. “peculiar institution” of slavery frowned upon for a long time iii. Abolitionists 2. Underground Railroad a. Network of secret routes and safe houses used in helping slaves escape to free states b. Harriet Tubman i. Also known as Moses
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but in 1870 Roman Catholics still outnumbered the Protestants and continued to be the leading founders of orphanages until the 1880’s. The number of orphanages also grew rapidly between 1830 and 1850. In 1830 the United States had a total of twenty-three orphanages‚ by 1850 just New York had twenty-seven. By 1830 “an embryonic reform movement had begun”‚ it removed dependent children from the teeming poorhouses and placed them in large orphan asylums. Many private corporations‚ such as the New York
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expanded in just twenty years: from 157 kilometres in 1830 to 9‚787 kilometres in 1850 (Strayer 836). In addition‚ Robert Fulton’s 1807 steamboat opened the door to transporting goods between places before deemed too far. The length of navigable waterways in Britain quadrupled between 1750 to 1820. (“Trends in International Trade”). These developments led to many significant economic benefits. First‚ prices of food and other products were 60% lower in 1850 relative to the 1700s as a result of a reduction
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Bibliography: Allen‚ R.‚ 2011. Global economic history: a very short introduction. Oxford University Press‚ Oxford. Bairoch‚ P.‚ Etemad‚ B.‚ 1985. Structure par produits des exportations du tiers-monde 1830-1837. Lraire Droz‚ Geneve. Bates‚ R. H.‚ Coatsworth J. H.‚ Williamson‚ J. G.‚ 2007. History‚ 67 (4)‚ 917-943. Bértola‚ L.‚ Williamson J. G.‚ 2006. Globalization in Latin America before 1940‚ in Bulmer-Thomas‚ V.‚ Coatsworth‚ J.‚ Cortés-Conde‚ R.‚ eds
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There were many events‚ people‚ and opinions that caused the U.S. Civil War in 1861. But the three biggest causes were states rights versus federal rights‚ the abolition movement‚ and the controversy of allowing slavery in the territories. Although these may appear to be vague‚ it was the events inside that made the difference. The South had a vested interest in not allowing the federal government to interfere with their state rights. The South claimed the federal government is prohibited by the
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David Thoreau Questioned the spiritual cost of the market revolution 15) Canals and railroads spurred the development of towns and cities along their route 16) Which mode of transportation had the most dramatic impact on American economic lide by 1850? railroad 17) This individual left England illegally and brought his cotton spinning machine constriction skills to the United States: Samuel Slater 18) While Eli Whitney’s role in developing the cotton gin is well known‚ he was also a pioneer
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In the early 1860s America faced the bloodiest war in its history‚ known as the American Civil War. The country was broken up by a drastic sectional divide between the North and South‚ which would eventually end in greater conflict than any yet seen on American soil. While many factors were important contributions to the cause of the war‚ there is ongoing dispute on what the most significant cause was. The North and South had many conflicting fundamental ideas such as Northern industrialism versus
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to improvements in public health and high birth rates • Immigration‚ choked off by wars in Europe and economic crises in America‚ contributed little to the American population in the first 3 decades of the 19th cent but revived beginning in the 1830s • Reduced transportation costs and increasing economic opportunities helped stimulate the immigration boom‚ as did deteriorating economic conditions in some areas of Europe • By 1810 New York City was the largest city in the USA which was a result
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Manifest Destiny was an idea defined by John L. O’Sullivan that it was the god given right of the of the American people to expand westward‚ to christianize and to utilize the land. Many things brought people West but One things that stood from the rest is the California Gold Rush of 1848. Many things happened out West that some view differently including wars and disagreement over land with other powerful Countries. But some question that; Although Americans perceived Manifest Destiny as a benevolent
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its seed‚ making it dramatically faster and less expensive to turn picked cotton into usable cotton for textiles. Eli Whitney invented the gin in 1794‚ and by 1850 the tool had changed the face of Southern agriculture. Before Whitney’s gin entered into widespread use‚ the United States produced roughly 750‚000 bales of hay‚ in 1830. By 1850 that amount had exploded to 2.85 million bales. This production was concentrated almost exclusively in the South‚ because of the weather conditions needed for
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