Advancements
Name one travel advancement during this time period
Canals, roads, railroads, steam engines, steam boats
The idea that it was the divinely ordained right of the United States to expand its borders to the Pacific Ocean and beyond.
Manifest Destiny
There was an increase in slave resistance during this period, including famous slave uprisings and _______ like Nat Turner's in 1831.
rebellions/revolts
This group of settlers traveled from South America, Mexico, China, Europe, and Eastern United States in search of economic prosperity during the California Gold Rush.
Forty-niners
True or False. California was admitted as a Free state in 1850.
True
People left the farms to find manufacturing work in cities. They exchanged their labor for wages in these ____ towns, like Lowell, MA.
Mill
What mode of transit was necessary during westward expansion to hold supplies and protect against the elements?
Covered wagon
Women's ______ was the movement aimed to give women the right to vote.
Suffrage
Which group involuntarily moved West to help scout new lands for early explorers and to provide free labor for settlers?
Slaves
Leaders of this movement included: Lucretia Mott, Ida B. Wells, Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, and Elizabeth Stanton
Women's Suffrage
Name one industrial advancement during this period?
Mills, interchangeable parts, Singer's sewing machines, power looms, steam powered machines, spinning jenny
Name one territory gained from Mexican-American War
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo set a border between Texas and Mexico and "ceded Texas, California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, most of Arizona and Colorado, and parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Wyoming to the United States"
The ______ movement promoted the end of the slave trade and the liberation of slaves.
Abolitionist
The _____ ______were forced west whenever the government felt it necessary to redistribute their land to settlers and move their territories to more unfavorable lands, including during the infamous Trail of Tears.
Native Americans
Which vocab term means an exaggerated devotion to the interests of a region over those of a country as a whole?
Sectionalism
Name one agricultural advancement during this period?
John Deere plows, McCormick's reaping machine, cotton gin
What issue divided Americans politically with regards to expansion?
Slavery
The abolitionist movement led Harriet Beecher Stowe to write this famous novel about the horrors of slavery.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
This group moved west to gain 160 acre parcels of land for ownership in exchange for working that land for at least 5 years (included women and free blacks).
Homesteaders
The cash crop in the South that produced the greatest economic benefit across the United States.
Cotton/ "King Cotton"
Name one communication-related advancement during this time period.
Telegraphs, telephones, pamphlets, magazines, Penny press affordable newspapers ("penny papers")
The popular route settlers took to go westward before the introduction of the Transcontinental Railroad
The Oregon Trail
Which famous U.S. Supreme Court decision determined that a slave who moved to a free state could not sue for his freedom (he was still considered property, so basically the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional)?
Dred Scott decision
Which group moved west to escape religious violence and settled in the Salt Lake region in Utah?
Mormons
The belief that the United States offers the opportunity for prosperity and success. It's the aspiration of Americans to move beyond the level of their parents and grandparents, and embraces the principles of equality, democracy, and material prosperity.
The American Dream