WESTWARD EXPANSION
This belief said the U.S. should expand westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This person helped bring settlers to Texas.
Who is Stephen F. Austin?
Gold was discovered here
What is Sutter’s Mill?
This changed production from handmade goods to factories.
What is industrialization?
This crop was most important to the Southern economy.
What is cotton?
Settlers traveled west on this trail.
What is the Oregon Trail?
This battle inspired Texans to continue fighting Mexico.
What is the Alamo?
The Gold Rush caused this western state’s population to grow rapidly.
What is California?
This invention made long-distance communication faster
What is the telegraph?
The South depended heavily on this labor system
What is slavery?
The U.S. and Britain settled Oregon’s boundary using this line.
What is the 49th parallel?
Texas became this after winning independence.
What is the Lone Star Republic?
People who rushed to California for gold were called this
Who are the forty-niners?
This invention made harvesting crops faster.
What is the mechanical reaper?
The North had more of these transportation systems.
What are railroads?
This treaty gave Florida to the United States.
What is the Adams-Onís Treaty?
Mexico still claimed this territory after it was annexed by the U.S.
What is Texas?
Fast-growing mining towns were called this
What are boomtowns?
Workers formed these to demand better wages and safer conditions.
What are labor unions?
Opposition to immigrants was called this.
What is nativism?
Americans wanted Oregon partly because it gave access to this ocean
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This treaty ended the Mexican-American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
These people sometimes enforced the law in boomtowns.
Who are vigilantes?
During the third phase of industrialization, machines did this.
What is mass production of goods?
Name TWO differences between the North and South before the Civil War.
Possible answers: North had factories while the South relied on farming; the North had more railroads and cities; the South depended on slavery and plantations.