Vocabulary
The Industrial Revolution
Immigrants and Reformers
Texas and Mexican War
Moving West
100
making many products at once
What is mass production?
100
changes in manufacturing and transportation
What was the Industrial Revolution?
100
countries from which the majority of immigrants originated between 1840-1860
What are Germany and Ireland?
100
Mexican people who lived in Texas
What are Tejanos?
100
started in Missouri and stretched west across the Rocky Mountains to present-day Oregon
What is the Oregon Trail?
200
a person who takes risks to start a business
What is an entrepreneur?
200
rose from less than 2 million pounds per year in 1790 to 60 million pounds per year in 1805
What is cotton production?
200
land and job opportunities
What is the reason people immigrated to the United States?
200
led the army to capture Santa Ana
Who is Sam Houston?
200
injuries, diseases, and bad weather
What were problems faced by pioneers on the Oregon Trail?
300
an action that makes something better
What is a reform?
300
a new way to make many types of tools and machines
What is mass production and interchangeable parts?
300
caused many people to leave Ireland
What is the Irish Potato Famine?
300
led settlers to Texas
Who is Stephen Austin?
300
1848
What is the year that California joined the United States?
400
the act of joining two countries or pieces of land together
What is annexation?
400
32 hours by steamboat, and only 10 hours by train
What is a trip from New York City to Albany?
400
marked the beginning of the Women's Rights Movement
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
400
May 3, 1846
What is the date that Congress declared war with Mexico?
400
sprang up near gold mines during the 1849 California Gold Rush
What are boomtowns?
500
the belief that the United States should spread across the entire North American continent, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean
What is Manifest Destiny?
500
inventor of the steam-powered boat
Who is Robert Fulton?
500
speak to audiences that included men, own property, vote, get high paying jobs, keep the money she earned
What are things women did not have the right to do?
500
$15,000,000
What is the price the United States paid for the land acquired during the Mexican Cession
500
miners who went to California around 1849
Who are forty-niners? (besides the football players playing in this year's Superbowl:)
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