Westward Expansion
Inevitable that the US would overspread the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny
First permanent English settlement in North America.
What was Jamestown?
Amendment giving women a political voice
What is the 19th Amendment?
Hamilton's compromise city to ensure assumption of all state debts for the US.
What is Washington DC?
President who set aside millions of acres for conservation efforts.
Who was Teddy Roosevelt?
Machine that made antebellum southerners buy up land like crazy
What was the cotton gin?
An agreement set up by the Pilgrims for self-government.
What was the Mayflower Compact?
Founded the Hull House to help assimilate new immigrants.
Who was Jane Addams?
Democratic-Republicans believed they were the future of the US.
What were farmers?
Wrote the pamphlet Common Sense.
Who was Thomas Paine?
The US set rules for how territories would become states.
What was the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
The Middle colonies of Pennsylvania and New York were sometimes called this.
What was the breadbasket colonies?
The idea that women were to serve as mothers who would teach and raise future, useful American citizens
What was Republican Motherhood?
For the first time, universal white male suffrage helped him get elected president of the US.
Who was Andrew Jackson?
Wrote the propaganda novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Relocation of the Cherokee from Georgia to Oklahoma.
What was the Trail of Tears?
Policy where a person was given 50 acres of land for every person they brought to Virginia.
What was the Headright System
The passage of this amendment split the women's movement, many believing the amendment didn't go far enough.
Governing body in colonial Virginia.
What was the House of Burgesses?
Progressive photographer who exposed problems with urban housing.
Who was Jacob Riis?
President during the Mexican American War.
Who was James Polk?
Event that caused wealthy plantation owners to transition away from indentured servants to chattel slaves instead.
What was Bacon's Rebellion?
"Remember the ladies...all men would be tyrants if they could." was written by this famous first lady.
Who was Abigail Adams?
Agreement that ended Reconstruction.
What was the Compromise of 1877?
Illegally taught evolution in Tennessee and was fined for it.
Who was John Scopes?