The Fifty States
A major state for "gold fever"
What is California
A belief by many Americans that the United States should expand to the Pacific Ocean
What is Manifest Destiny?
Having pride in the country you live in.
What is nationalism.
A congressional act that authorized the removal of Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
A system developed to use for communication that uses a combination of dots and dashes to represent the letters in the alphabet.
What is the Morse Code?
The U.S state closest to Russia.
What is Alaska?
Explorers who traveled through the new territories formed by Louisiana Purchase.
Who were Lewis and Clark?
A long trip to move cows to sell or to better grazing lands.
What is a cattle drive?
A treaty signed by the United States and the northern plains Indians.
What is the Treaty of Fort Laramie?
Banned slavery and involuntary servitude except as a punishment for a crime.
What is the 13th Amendment?
The location of The Alamo.
What is Texas?
A group who moved west to avoid religious persecution.
Who are the Mormons?
Locations set up west of the Mississippi River for Native Americans.
What are reservations?
A law passed by congress to encourage settlement in the West by giving government owned land to small farmers.
What is the Homestead Act?
Citizenship, Voting Rights, Banning Rebels from Government, and Payment of Debts are part of?
What is the 14th Amendment?
The location of the Comstock Lode.
What is Neveda?
A 2000 mile long trail that went from Missouri to the Oregon territory.
What is the Oregon Trail?
A machine that helped to harvest cotton more quickly by removing the seeds.
What is the Cotton Gin?
A federal law passed by Congress that gave land to western states to build colleges.
What is the Morrill Act?
The right of the citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied by the United States or any State on account of race,, color or previous condition of servitude.
What is the 15th Amendment?
The beginning of "The Trail of Tears"
What is Georgia?
Allowed Missouri to be admitted as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What is the Missouri Comprimise?
A process for making machine parts exactly the same produced?
What are interchangeable parts?
The treaty that ended the Mexican-American War that gave the United States much of Mexico's northern territory.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
The purchase of land from the French that stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?