Moving West
This is one reason that Oregon Trail hard for many settlers?
What is: -The trail crossed through the Rocky Mountains. -They faced injuries, diseases. -There was harsh weather. -There was a lack of food and water.
Before joining the United Stated Texas made this decision about slavery within its borders.
What is it legalized slavery?
Name one kind of transportation that increased the efficiency of movement of both people and goods
What is?-National Road-Erie Canal-Steamboat-Steam Engine/Railroad?
This group of Europeans most often settled in the Midwest after coming to the U.S. and set up family farms.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton fought for this right.
Women's Suffrage (Women's right to vote)
These are the results of the California Gold Rush.
What is: -Boomtowns emerged -California had enough people to become a state -Cities (like San Franciso) starting popping up - Native Americans were displaced.
Between being a part of Mexico and joining the United States, Texas was an Independent _________
What is a republic?
What is the cotton gin?
This group stayed in port cities where they landed because they were too poor to move
Who are the Irish?
This was the goal of Temperance Movement.
What was to cut back on the drinking of alcohol?
The belief that the U.S. has a responsibility to god to spread its way of life across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The two reasons that Americans oppose the annexation of Texas?
What is they did not want to disrupt the slave state/free state balance in the U.S. and they did not want to start a war with Mexico.
The Horse-Drawn Reaper, which was used for harvesting wheat was invented by this person
Who is Cyrus McCormick?
What is worked in factories, as servants, and as laborers?
This movement fought against slavery.
What is the abolitionist movement
This is how relationships initially were between Native Americans and Pioneers along the Oregon trail.
What is they were positive? The Native Americans often helped the pioneers.
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo gave America these two territories.
What is Texas and California?
This group of workers was sometimes preferred by business owners because they didn't have to be paid as much and they were in general smaller and could reach tight places.
Who are child laborers?
Immigrants were disliked by some Americans for these two reasons.
-They were foreign and therefore different (different customs) -Americans thought immigrants were taking jobs from them.
When you try to change something in society for the better or to correct an injustice it is referred to as.
What is a reform movement?
This is the starting point of the Oregon Trail.
What is Independence, Missouri?
Americans who moved to Texas before it was its own republic brought ________ with them, which was against the law.
What is slaves?
The Lowell Mill is notable for having both of these kinds of devices for turning cotton into cloth
What are cotton spinning machines and power looms?
A wide spread shortage of food is referred to as
What is a famine?
This group of people was heavily involved in all of the different reform movements at this time.
Who are women?