Westward Expansion
Material found in California mines.
What is gold?
What is England?
Abolitionist with the nickname "Moses"
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Two places that children often worked before going to school was common.
What are factories and farms?
The city Mr. Tierney will be moving to.
What is Philadelphia?
The war through which the United States got Utah, New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada.
Work system in which young women were provided with housing and asked to work in textile mills.
What is the Lowell Mill System?
Song that had secret directions for escaping slavery.
What is, "Follow the Drinking Gourd?"
Name of the woman that fought for prison reform.
What is Dorothea Dix?
The other subject area that Mr. Tierney is certified to teach besides Social Studies.
What is English?
Commonly held idea by Americans. Represented by a cartoon of a floating angel women leading pioneers into the West as Native Americans flee.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Two major inventions involving transportation.
What are trains and steamboats?
Rebellion that led to stricter laws regarding the rights of slaves.
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion?
Name of the prison that opened in Philadelphia, PA during the 1800s.
What is Eastern State Penitentiary?
What sport did Mr. Tierney do in high school?
Track/Cross Country
Name of a football team and of a group of people that went to California in search of gold.
First industry to take off during the Industrial Revolution.
What are textiles?
System in which raw materials, manufactured goods, and slaves were traded between the Americas, Europe, and Africa.
What is the Triangular Trade?
Three groups of people that were commonly found in prisons during the early 1800s.
What are criminals, the mentally ill, and orphans?
The college that Mr.Tierney attended.
What is Indiana University of Pennsylvania?
Battle where a group of Texans were all killed defending a religious settlement from the Mexican military.
What is the Alamo?
Device used to communicate messages long distance via morse code.
What is the telegraph?
Term used to describe when members of a state were given the ability to vote on the issue of slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
Document written to express the injustices committed against women.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
The color shirt that Mr. Tierney wore most often.
What is blue?