History

• Gold Rush was when people were rushing to places with gold in U.S. California gold rush doubled the world's supply of gold.
• James W. Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill, California.
• Forty Niners were gold seekers who moved to San Francisco in 1848 as part of gold rush.
• Boomtowns were communities that popped up during gold rush
• Levi Strauss was a Jewish immigrant who sold good pants to the miners. It made him rich.
• Interchangeable Parts are parts that can be replaced without affecting the rest of the machine.
• Cotton Gin was a machine which moved bad stuff out of cotton and was invented by Eli Whitney
• Sectionalism was when you love the region more then the country
• State rights were like when the states can do whatever they want with their property and federal government and southerners used that to show that they're not part of the union
• Free states were states that did not allow slavery before American Civil War
• Slave states were states that allowed slavery before the American Civil War.
• Missouri Compromise was when they allowed Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state and balanced the states between slave states and free states
• Compromise of 1850 was when California was admitted as a free state. Slavery was illegal in Kansas and Nebraska. Created Utah and New Mexico as slave state. Ended slave trading in Washington DC. Passed the Fugitive Slave Act.
• Popular Sovereignty - citizens rule
• Fugitive Slave Act -to return the escaped slaves to their masters or they will be punished. It made the north angry and later they were on antislavery team
• Henry Clay was a Congressman who was owning slaves in Kentucky. Led Congress in Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850.
• Kansas-Nebraska Act - when they allowed people in new territories to decide