Industrial Revolution Inventions
This invention by Robert Fulton carried goods and people up rivers without depending on wind.
What is the steamboat?
Andrew Jackson became a hero after winning this important battle in the War of 1812.
What is the Battle of New Orleans?
This belief said the United States was meant to stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Mexico said this river was the southern border of Texas.
What is the Nueces River?
Eli Whitney created these identical pieces so guns could be assembled and repaired more easily.
What are interchangeable parts?
In the election of 1824, Jackson won the popular vote, but this man became president after the House of Representatives decided the election.
Who is John Quincy Adams?
This term means people and U.S. territory moved farther west in the 1800s.
What is westward expansion?
The United States said this river was the southern border of Texas.
What is the Rio Grande?
This invention by Samuel F. B. Morse sent messages over wires using dots and dashes.
What is the telegraph?
Many people used this phrase to describe the deal they believed happened between Adams and Henry Clay.
What is the Corrupt Bargain?
This land joined the United States in 1845 as the 28th state, which increased tension with Mexico.
What is Texas?
President Polk sent this general and his troops into disputed land near the Rio Grande.
Who is Zachary Taylor?
John Deere invented this tool that helped farmers cut through tough soil more easily.
What is the steel plow?
Jackson said he represented this group instead of rich, educated leaders.
What is the common man?
Americans argued “54°40' or fight!” over this territory in the Northwest.
What is the Oregon Territory?
This 1848 treaty ended the Mexican-American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This invention made this product much faster to clean, but it also led to a greater demand for farming and increased the use of enslaved labor in the South.
What is the cotton gin?
This voting change helped more white men vote and helped Jackson win in 1828.
What is universal white male suffrage?
This doctrine warned European nations not to interfere in the Americas and helped support U.S. expansion.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
In this 1846 event, American settlers seized Sonoma and raised a flag with a grizzly bear on it.
What is the Bear Flag Revolt?