Why did factories during this era pay women less?

This man is responsible for the invention of the telegraph.  It allowed merchants to know when to expect shipments and the “going price” for the shipments.  Who was he?

The business cycles, a series of booms and busts in the economy, created great wealth disparity between what two groups?

Former President John Quincy Adams argued the case of the Amistad before the Supreme Court in 1841.   What was the Court’s ruling for the rebellious slaves of the Amistad?  

This battle, fought over three days,  had the most casualities of the war.  It was considered a Northern victory.  Many thought General George Meade should have persued Lee’s army and destroyed them.  This battle is considered a major turning point in the war.  After this, Lee would never launch another Northern campaign.

In the Supreme Court case Gibbons v. Ogden (1824), what did the Court forbid?

The Enforcement Acts strengthened state’s rights by allowing the states to make decisions concerning Reconstruction on an individual state basis.

The 14th Amendment defines ______________.

The Hudson River school of painters emphasized in their work the importance of __________.

In this deal with Mexico, the United States paid Mexico $10 million for a strip of land that now forms parts of New Mexico and Arizona.  It was purchased to build a southern railroad line to California.