Go West
Wake Up Dude!
Let Me In
Times They Are A'changin
A Look At The Past
100
$18 a square mile? We'll take 828,000 of them. Thank you Napoleon, sincerely, Thomas Jefferson.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
100
This term names the religious revival movement in the early 1800s that encouraged personal faith and social reform.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
100
During the mid-1800s, many immigrants came from this part of Europe because of potato famine and economic hardship.
What is Ireland?
100
This movement aimed to reduce or eliminate alcohol consumption.
What is the temperance movement?
100
What happened to these people is still a mystery today.
What is the Roanoke Colony?
200
The idea depicted in this image:
What is Manifest Destiny?
200
These outdoor, multi-day religious gatherings, often held in rural areas, helped spread the return to God message.
What are revival meetings?
200
Many immigrants settled in cities and worked in factories; this led to crowded housing and low wages — this process of people moving from rural areas and immigrant populations into cities is called this.
What is urbanization?
200
This social movement worked to end slavery in the United States.
What is abolitionism or the abolition movement?
200
This was the first constitution of the United States.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
300
Sure, they're pretty, but I don't get the hurry for some rocks.
What is the California Gold Rush?
300
The Second Great Awakening emphasized that individuals could improve themselves and society; this belief is called this two-word idea.
What is moral reform? OR What is social reform?
300
Immigrants provided labor that helped fuel this major 19th-century U.S. economic development.
What is industrialization? (accept: building railroads / factories)
300
This 1848 meeting in Seneca Falls, New York, produced a "Declaration of Sentiments," that demanded equal rights for women, including the right to vote.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
300
The English policy of basically ignoring the colonies as long as they made England money.
What is Salutary Neglect?
400
California, Arizona, New Mexico, & Colorado were all added to the United States through this.
What is the Mexican Cession?
400
To enthusiastically tell people about a particular branch of Christianity, especially in order to convert them.
What is to Evangelize?
400
Explain how industrialization in the U.S. both attracted immigrants and created difficult working conditions for them (brief answer).
What is: Factories offered jobs that attracted immigrants, but working conditions were often dangerous, with long hours, low pay, and crowded workplaces?
400
This person was influencial in the Common Schools movement in the 1830s and is often called the "father" of American public schools.
Who is Horace Mann?
400
This branch of government makes the laws.
What is the legislative branch (congress)?
500
This 1848 treaty ended the Mexican–American War and added a large amount of territory to the United States.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
500
A nineteenth-century movement in the Romantic tradition, which held that every individual can reach ultimate truths through spiritual intuition, which transcends reason and sensory experience.
What is Transcendentalism?
500
This Nativist political movement of the mid-1800s opposed immigration and favored native-born Americans; its members used the slogan “Vote for Americans.”
What is the Know-Nothing or the American Party?
500
This movement promoted better schools, professional teacher training, and public education reform in the 19th century.
What are the common school/public school reforms?
500
A "Christmas gift" from George Washington for about 900 Hessian soldiers. They were definitely surprised to recieve it.
What was the Battle of Trenton?