Siege in which 6,000 Mexican troops faced 150 Texans.
What is the Alamo?
100
What is a locomotive?
What is a steam powered engine to pull rail cars?
100
Members of this party were anti-Catholic and anti-immigrants.
What is Know Nothing Party.
100
Name two abolitionists that published anti-slavery newspapers.
Who are Frederick Douglass and William Garrison.
100
What is an immigrant?
What is a person who enters a new country in order to settle there.
200
Name the reasons Texas wanted to become a State.
What is government of Mexico refused to accept Santa Anna Treaty, Texas was almost bankrupt, Indians were threatening small communities in Texas.
200
What is a trade union?
What is Artisans in the trades formed these to fight for better working conditions and the right to strike.
200
What is an organized attempt to fight injustices or imperfections in society?
What is Social Reform?
200
What was the Underground Railroad?
What is a netwrok of white and black abolitionists who secretly helped slaves escape to freedom.
200
what are sleek sailing ships that are able to move very fast?
What is a clipper ship?
300
A route starting from Independence, Missouri and heading northwest.
What is the Oregon Trail?
300
This type of economy depends on manufacturing.
What is Industrial Economy?
300
Define Nativists.
What is group of Americans that wanted to preserve the country for native-born white citizens.
300
What are laws passed to keep slaves from running away or rebelling?
What are slave codes?
300
The first clipper ship was launched by?
Who was John Griffiths?
400
Name the battle that forced Santa Anna to sign the treaty to grant Texas its independence.
What is Battle of San Jacinto?
400
This type of economy depends on the growing of crops.
What is Agricultural Economy.
400
Define Discrimination.
What is Policy or attitude that denies equal rights to certain groups of people.
400
What is cottonocracy?
What were wealthy families because they earned large sums of money from growing cotton.
400
Who patented the telegraph/
Who was Samuel F.B. Morse?
500
Americans believed that it was their right to spread across the continent all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
500
Describe several conditions in the factories in the 1840s.
What is unsafe working conditions, low wages, long hours - 4 am to 7 pm, factories not heated or cooled, families lived outside of factories in dark dingy homes.
500
How did public education improve in the 1800s?
What is state funded schools. colleges for teachers, better pay for teachers, extended school years, schools for Black students (in some northern cities).