"American Progress"
Trails & Maps
TX Independence/War with Mexico
California Gold Rush
Ch. 14
(so far!)
(so far!)
Miscellaneous
100
This is just one thing we can learn about while analyzing art from different periods in history.
Many acceptable answers.
100
This is the trail I (you) would travel and this is why.
Many acceptable answers.
100
This is the country that won the War with Mexico (Mexican-American War).
What is the United States?
100
This is why many individuals - mostly men - travel to CA (San Francisco area) in the mid-1800s.
What is the CA Gold Rush? Or something similar.
100
This is what we call a severe food shortage that results in widespread death.
What is a famine?
100
This is the school that Harry Potter attends.
What is Hogwarts?
200
This detail from "American Progress" illustrates the idea of Manifest Destiny.
Many acceptable answers.
200
The city of Los Angeles is located on this body of water.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
200
Spain offered their people land grants in Texas for this reason.
What is to help handle issues with Natives and Americans who entered illegally?
200
This is ONE major effect of the CA Gold Rush.
Many acceptable answers.
200
This is an example of ONE push factor and ONE pull factor.
Many acceptable answers.
200
This is what we call the ability to perspective-take with people from the past.
What is historical empathy?
300
This is a bias that is illustrated in "American Progress."
Many acceptable answers.
300
True or False: “The cities of St. Louis and Nauvoo are located on the Mississippi River.”
True
300
This is why Americans were reluctant to annex Texas.
What is the issue of slavery (can go into more detail)?
300
True or False: The CA Gold Rush resulted in genocide against Native communities.
True
300
This is a good explanation of the difference between Emigrants and Immigrants.
Emigrants = people leaving a country.
Immigrants = people in a new country.
300
This is the title of Taylor Swift's new album.
What is The Tortured Poets Department?
400
The artist plays with light and direction in "American Progress" by . . .
Many acceptable answers.
400
The California Trail was roughly this many miles long.
What is 500 miles?
400
Mexico and the US disagreed about the location of Texas’ __________.
What is the US/Mexico border?
400
This is what you call someone who participated in the CA Gold Rush, when thousands rushed to CA in search of gold.
What is a Forty Niner?
400
This is a negative opinion about someone or some place not based on fact.
What is a prejudice?
400
____________ is the name of one band member from The Beatles.
Who is John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, or Ringo Starr?
500
"American Progress" is painted from the perspective of this group/type of people.
What is White/Male/American/European/etc. individuals?
500
True or False: “The Mormons traveled the Oregon Trail mainly to find better food choices in Utah.”
False
500
This treaty ended the war with Mexico.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
500
This is how the CA Gold Rush created major problems between the Northern and Southern states.
What is the issue of slavery/imbalance?
500
This 19th-century American writer significantly influenced modern horror and detective fiction with dark, influential works such as The Raven.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
500
Benjamin Franklin wanted this bird to be the national bird, not the Bald Eagle.
What is a Turkey?
600
This is the definition of Manifest Destiny.
Must include: Idea, bound to happen, US expand from Atlantic to Pacific -- or something similar.
600
This type or group of people traveled along the Santa Fe Trail toward NM (main type/group).
Who are traders like William Becknell?
600
When general Zachary Taylor’s troops blockaded this river, Mexico saw it as an invasion and ambushed the US.
What is the Rio Grande?
600
This is the definition of genocide.
What is the intentional killing of a large group of people (usually racial, ethnic, etc.)? -- Or something along those lines.
600
This is a person born in a country who wants to erase foreign influence & culture from it.
What is a nativist?
600
The popular video game Fortnite was released roughly this many years ago this year.
What is seven years?
700
"American Progress" was painted in this decade and century.
What is the 1870s?
700
This is the northernmost trail.
What is the Oregon Trail?
700
These are the six countries that all owned the territory where Texas currently exists.
What are France, Mexico, Lone Star, Confederacy, Spain, and US?
700
This city experienced a population boom during the CA Gold Rush (more than one answer is acceptable).
What is San Francisco or Sacramento?
700
Fill in the blank: Throughout the mid-1800s, American writers like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Edgar Allan Poe reflected the idea that American writers should cast off _____________ influence and develop their own beliefs and art.
English or European.
700
What times are represented by these clocks?
12:15, 6:30, 6:15, & 9:30.