What were the improvements that were made in transportation during the Transportation Revolution?
Canals, Turnpikes/Roads, Steamboats, Railroads
100
Why was the building of canals, roads, bridges, and railroads in the 19th century important to the development of a market economy?
Created a transportation network that linked the regions of the nation economically
100
What was the invention that improved upon the spinning wheel and made it easier to spin fibers into yarn?
Spinning jenny
100
What was the 1836 rebellion in which Texas gained its independence from Mexico?
Texas Revolution
100
What was the name of California when it was its own country?
The Bear Flag Republic
200
What did the North do to make money?
Worked in textile factories
200
What type of factory made clothes?
Textile factory
200
What was the main goal of the Manifest Destiny?
To convince Americans to expand the territory of the United States to the Pacific Ocean
200
What was the mission and fort in San Antonio, Texas where Mexican forces massacred rebellious Texans in 1836?
The Alamo
200
What was the name of the treaty that ended the Mexican-American War and ceded New Mexico and California to the United States of America?
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
300
What did the South do to make money?
Farmed cotton, tobacco, and sugar
300
Where was one of the most famous textile mills in the country?
Lowell, Massachusetts
300
Who was the President that wanted to expand the territory of the United States by taking over the Oregon Territory? His campaign slogan was 54 Forty or Fight!
James K. Polk
300
What was the name of Texas when it was its own country?
The Lone Star Republic
300
By the mid-1800s most of the people settling in California were in search of what?
Wealth from the discovery of gold
400
What did the West do to make money?
Farmed wheat and meat
400
What were the groups of workers who fought for better working conditions and improved wages for the textile factory workers?
Unions
400
What were the two major trails that Americans took going West?
The Santa Fe Trail and the Oregon Trail
400
What happened to Texas after it got its independence?
Texas was annexed by the United States of America
400
What were the people who migrated to California in search of riches after gold was discovered there called?
Forty-Niners
500
What type of economy did the Transportation Revolution create?
Market Economy
500
What was one form of protest that many of the early factory leaders used in which workers stopped working in order to force an employer to respond to demands?
Strike
500
What was the religious group who moved west to Utah because they were being persecuted for their belief in polygamy?
Mormons
500
What term means to add a territory to an existing country?
Annex
500
What effect did the Industrial Revolution and Agricultural Revolution have on immigration?
Increased immigration from Northern and Western Europe especially the numbers of Irish and German immigrants