Louisiana Purchase
This event in 1803 led to the United States doubling in size.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
What is gold?
A time when many inventions were created and industries and cities began to grow.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This invention made it easier to separate the seeds from cotton.
It also increased production of cotton, but also increased slavery in the South.
Bonus 50 pts. if you can name the inventor
What is the Cotton Gin?
Who is Eli Whitney?
This resource comes grows or comes from the earth.
What is natural resource?
This president purchased the LA territory from France.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The government motivated settlers to move West by passing this Act, which gave settlers free land.
What is the Homestead Act?
People moved from rural to urban areas in order to work in factories. This is an example of_______
What is Urbanization?
The Cotton Gin led to this steam powered invention.
What is the Steamboat?
This resource is needed to operate and work the machines.
What is human resource?
This ruler needed money to pay for a war with England.
Who is Napoleon?
The Oregon trail began in this state that begins with an M, and ended in this state that ends in an O.
What is Missouri and Oregon?
Child working in factories under the age of 14 is an example of ______.
What is Child Labor?
Electricity was needed for this important invention.
Bonus 50 pts. if you can name the inventor
What is the lightbulb?
Who is Thomas Edison?
This resource is used to make or create a product.
What is capital resource?
Due to the discoveries of these famous explorers, people wanted to move West for farming opportunities.
Who is Lewis and Clark?
This event made Texas a part of the United States.
What is the Texas Annexation?
Using machines to increase supply of a product, and also lower prices is an example of _______
What is Mass Production?
This invention helped in buildings in the cities.
(Bonus 50 pts. if you can name the inventor)
What is the elevator?
Who is Elisha Otis?
This form of transportation made it easier to travel West for economic opportunities.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Lewis and Clark established relationships with this group of people to increase trade in America.
Who are the Native Americans?
What is the Mexican Cessison?
The Erie Canal impacted the economy by making this state a financial capital.
What is New York?
This invention used electricity to make cooking food easier.
What is the electric oven?
What is Manifest Destiny?