Westward!
This picture (that I will display) shows Americans moving West. The westward expansion of Americans from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean became known as:
Manifest Destiny
Lewis and Clark were ordered to explore this area of the USA, which was bought from France
The Louisiana Purchase
This invention let southern plantation owners harvest more cotton
Harriet Tubman
This president was elected in 1860, and caused many southern states to secede (leave) from the Union
Abraham Lincoln
In 1849, this was discovered in California. Thousands of settlers went there in search of it.
GOLD!
This Native American person helped Lewis and Clark explore the large territory the USA bought.
Sacajawea
This invention helped improve land transportation across the entire USA
Locomotive/Trains
Follow the Drinking Gourd
The two main causes of the Civil War were:
Slavery and States Rights
During this war, Great Britain tried to take back the Territory it had lost during the American Revolution. They succeeded in burning down the White House before they were defeated.
War of 1812
This president ordered Lewis and Clark to explore the land they bought.
Thomas Jefferson
Locomotives/Trains were powered by what type of engine?
Steam Engines
This slave led a violent revolt that killed many slave owners in Southampton Virginia. He was seen as a villain by the south, but a hero by abolitionists.
Nat Turner
The attack on this fort was the first battle in the Civil War
Fort Sumter
Trail of Tears
Lewis and Clark explored lands west of this major US River
Mississippi River
The textile/clothing industry mostly employed what two groups of Americans?
Women and children.
This compromise made it so that if a free state entered the union, a slave state also had to enter the union, so that a balance of power could be kept in congress.
Missouri Compromise
This man and his sons raided a place called Harper's Ferry in an attempt to start a slave rebellion.
John Brown
This president was famous (or maybe infamous) for ordering the forced westward movement of Native Americans
Andrew Jackson
Lewis and Clark's expedition was known as the "Corps of ______________"
Corps of Discovery
The North had more of this type of communication technology than the South during the Civil war, thus they could relay messages faster than the South
Telegraph
This law, passed in 1850, allowed slavers to recapture escaped slaves in northern states, and made it illegal to help escaped slaves.
The Fugitive Slave Act
This act caused a fight in congress, where one senator was beaten with a cane.
Kansas-Nebraska Act