American Beginnings
This mountain range extends from New Mexico to British Columbia.
What is the Rocky Mountains?
This is the reason the Proclamation of 1763 upset the Colonists.
What is it limited the Western territory Colonists could settle in?
This major waterway connects the Great Lakes with New York City.
What is the Erie Canal?
This organization was created by Clara Barton after she witnessed a need during the Civil War.
What is the Red Cross?
This business practice used by the titans of industry in the late 1800's gave them power over the industry.
What is Building Monopolies?
Many Native American tribes were nomadic, meaning they...
What is moved around from place to place based on food supply and weather conditions.
What were two consequences of the French and Indian War?
Trade embargos and tariffs after the war of 1812 and American's inability to import British goods led to increase growth in this part of the US economy.
What is industry?
This document announced that all slaves in Confederate states were now free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This agency was established to regulate the rates railroads charged across the nation.
What is the Interstate Commerce Commission?
This Native American civilization was located in the American Southwest.
What is the Anasazi?
This was the reason Colonists had such a big issue with paying British taxes.
What is they had no representation in British government and believed they had no right to tax them?
This development in communication led to enhanced and faster communication capabilities.
What is the telegraph?
This Supreme Court Case decision overturned the Missouri Compromise and stated the slaves were not citizens.
What is the Dred Scott v. Sanford case?
These were the two main ports of entrance for immigrants to the United states.
What is Ellis Island and Angel Island?
The transfer of plants, animals, and other diseases from one side of the Atlantic to the other after the arrival of Columbus in the Americas is known as this global interation.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This was the purpose for the writing of the Declaration of Independence.
What is Colonist Declaring their independence from Britain and the British government?
What is the Indian Removal Act.
This was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Antietam.
This battle was the American response to losing the Battle of Little Bighorn.
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?
This European nation was considered to have a respectful and friendly relationships with Native Americans mainly due to their trade based settlement.
What is France?
Anti- Federalist insisted on a Bill of Rights for the Constitution for this reason.
What is to ensure that individual rights and liberties were protected?
This was an unexpected consequence of the development of the Cottin Gin.
What is the increased need for slave labor?
These laws were passed in the south and severely limited freedoms of newly freed African Americans.
What is Black Codes?
The construction of this infrastructure led to the creation of jobs and stimulated markets across the nation.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?