Treaties, Laws, and Promises
Another word for "an amendment to a bill which does not particularly pertain to the subject of the bill", (could also be used to name people in relation to their bicycles, horses, or motorcycles).
rider
In 1848 they discovered Gold at Sutter's mill in what state?
California
The name of the River that Mexico troops crossed to challenge U.S. forces (it roughly translates to "large river").
Rio Grande.
This invention, by Elias Howe, was advertised as the "Automatic, Continuous Clothing Closure" in 1851.
The zipper
The word for having specific loyalty to a region or group, also part of the name of one of our lessons
Sectionalism
Introduced by David Wilmot of Pennsylvania, in 1846, this Proviso proposed banning slavery in territory acquired after the Mexican American War. It was unsuccessful and Southerners believed that it was an attack against the expansion of slavery.
The Wilmot Proviso
The name of the horde of miners who came to California in 1849 to find gold.
forty-niners
Roughly translated to "Holy Faith", this city is where troops traveled from on their way to California to help in the Bear Flag Rebellion.
Santa Fe
The Jewish community dominated what industry in New York City
clothing
The desire to see an immediate end to slavery, the name for the movement to end slavery.
Abolitionism
This Supreme Court case of 1824 reinforced the fact that the federal government controlled interstate commerce when it decided in favor of Thomas Gibbons, stating that New York state couldn't grant monopolies on using their river for interstate commerce.
Gibbons v. Odgen
In the song "Oh my Darling, Clementine", what happens to Clementine?
She drowns.
It's name roughly translates to "will see the cross", this is the location where U.S. troops gathered to attack Mexico City.
Successful agriculture on the plains was largely the result of this invention, by John Deere.
the steel plow
Sharing a similar root to the word "provide" this word means a legal agreement which becomes law if certain conditions are met.
proviso
This treaty, named for the Mexican state where it was signed in 1848, gave the US all disputed regions in Texas, California, and the land in-between, and ended the Mexican-American war.
Treaty of Hildalgo
What was "panning"?
The method by which miners separated gold from dirt.
Mexico felt threatened by the United states for many reasons, name one of them.
-They still believed that the lands claimed by Texas west of the Nueces River belonged to Mexico and not the United States.
- They believed the United States was trying to take California away from them.
-other reasons???
This device, created by Eli Whitney in 1794, led to an increase in cotton production
the cotton gin
They ----- the situation, or made it worse, when they hit the lion with a stick.
aggravated
This treaty between the US and Mexico secured a route for the Western Railroad, and added nearly 30 thousand-square-miles of what is present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico to the U.S.
Gadsden Purchase
Due to the increased number of people and potential wealth caused by the gold rush, what happened to California in the year 1850?
It was admitted as a state / it became a state.
Another word for a "plan" (which also means schedule), one main objective on Polk's ---- included taking over lots of Mexican land and making it part of California.
agenda
What two groups of immigrants came to the US in the first half of the 19th century and settled in New York (along the coast) and in the Midwest?
Irish and Germans
divisive