Native American Life
A long and dangerous route that the Bureau of Indian Affairs designed to properly move Indians off their land
What is The Trail of Tears?
This Catholic group of people travelled to America by ship in very poor conditions.
Who are the Irish?
The first ever national turnpike funded by the Federal Government in U.S. History.
What is the Cumberland Road?
The Gold Rush allowed this territory to apply for statehood.
What is California?
A potato famine in this country drove a wave of catholic immigrants to America.
What is Ireland?
A law signed in 1830 that authorized the removal of Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
A nickname given to a group of political refugees who fled to America after a series of failed revolutions.
Who are the 48ers?
This waterway was built in 1825 using New York state money and resulted in a significant decrease in shipping costs.
What is the Erie Canal?
This event motivated Americans to travel westward in hopes of a wealthier life.
What is the California Gold Rush?
The second great awakening resulted in a revival of this religious group during the 1830s-1840s.
What are Protestants?
Native Americans were relocated into this state under the Indian Removal Act.
What is Oklahoma?
This was one of the main reasons that the Irish emigrated to America; it resulted in death from starvation.
What is the Great Famine or Irish Potato Famine?
A nickname used to refer to the locomotive invented in 1827.
What is the Iron Horse?
Most of the Mexicans who lived in the new United States territories became U.S. citizens when this treaty was signed.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
The founder of the Mormons who was later murdered in Illinois.
Who is Joseph Smith?
The two court cases that involved the rights of Native Americans and the rights of the states.
What is The Cherokee Nation v.s. Georgia and Worcester v.s. Georgia?
This nation provided safety from war, religious freedom, land, and opportunity for many in the early and mid 1800s.
What is America?
His invention of the steamboat opened huge areas for economic development.
Who is Robert Fulton?
Who offered to buy California from Mexico for $25 million and later prepared to take California by force?
Who is James K. Polk?
Two Christian groups that attracted many African Americans to their churches.
Who are the Baptists and the Methodists?
This Native American tribe was known for resisting removal by fighting.
Who are the Cherokee?
This ethnic group of migrants enjoyed drinking and were generally accepted by Americans.
Who are the Germans?
This form of communication replaced the Pony Express in 1861.
What is the trans-continental telegraph wire?
The war resulted in this river being Mexico's new border with America.
What is the Rio Grande?
The Ohio city where the first Jews in America settled.
What is Cincinnati?