Westward Expansion
When did industrialization begin?
Who were the first immigrants to the USA?
What is the American Dream?
What is that no matter who you are or where you come from, you can achieve your goals?
For how much did American buy land from France in the Louisiana Purchase?
What is $15 million.
Define industrialization.
What is the era when production increated due to the invention of many machines.
Where did the majority of immigrants come from in tthe 1600s- 1700s?
What is England, Scotland, Ireland and Germany.
For which groups of people is the American Dream difficult? Name two.
Women, people of color and first-generation immigrants.
Name at least 3 states that Mexico once occupied.
What is California, Nevada, Utah, Arizone, New Mexico and Texas.
Define capitalism.
What is an economic system with little regulation where people privately own businesses and can keep most of the profits.
Name three reasons that people came to the United States.
What is economic opportunity, political unrest back hom, religious freedom, or fleeing persecution.
How does the declining birth rate reflect the American Dream?
What happened to Native Americans as settlers continued to move out West?
What is they made treaties with the government, they waged war, or they were moved to specific reservations, which was land given to them for occupation.
Name two results from industrialization.
What is urbanization; labor unions were created to ensure human rights; many Americans became a part of a growing middle class.
How did many Africans come to the United States?
What is they came through the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
What is one way that the American Dream has changed from generations in the past.
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Explain Manifest Destiny.
What is the idea that the United States is destined by God to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism around the world.
Who invented the idea of capitalism?
In what year did the USA close its borders and only allow certain groups to come through. Where did they favor groups of people coming from?
What is 1924, and groups from Northern Europe were favored.
Name and explain one criticism that James Adam's had of the American Dream.
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