Vocab
Land acquisitions
People
Transcendentalism
Manifest Destiny mapped
100
God given right to move west
What is manifest destiny?
100
Doubled the size of the United States, acquired originally for the port city of New Orleans and gave sole access to the United States
What is Louisiana Purchase?
100
This reformer helped treat the mentally ill and helped reform prisons
Who is Dorothea Dix?
100
This group of individuals drew paintings of the west encouraging westward movement and "romantic" ideas about the West
Who is the Hudson River School?
100
Which land acquisition represents Texas Annexation?
What is number 2?
200
The desire to remove slavery in the US
What is abolitionism?
200
Acquiring this land caused the Mexican-American War and eventually gave the United States the Mexican Cession
What is Texas Annexation?
200
This reformer was known as the "Father of Education" advocating for universal public education
Who is Horace Mann?
200
This individual purposely didn't pay his taxes, displaying an act of Civil Disobedience
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
200
What land acquisition represents the area bought from France in 1803 and gave United States sole access to Mississippi River/New Orleans?
What is number 3?
300
The adding of a territory into a country
What is annex?
300
'54 40' or fight but ended up making a compromise at the 49th parallel
What is the Oregon territory?
300
This reformer fought for women's rights and the abolition of slavery. She gave a famous speech titled "Ain't I a Woman?"
Who is Sojourner Truth?
300
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote this book. Where can we found Waldo at?
What is Nature?
300
What land acquisition gave the United States this piece of land after the Declaration of Independence was signed?
What is number 7?
400
To give up land/territory to another country
What is cede/cession?
400
Acquired this land that gave US sole possession of the Pacific Ocean and worried Northern abolitionists about the expansion of slavery in the west
What is the Mexican Cession?
400
This reformer led escaped slaves out of the South and into the North through the use of the Underground Railroad
Who is Harriett Tubman?
400
Movement that believed people were born good and should use their moral spirit to guide them
What is Transcendentalism?
400
The rally cry for this piece of land was 54 40 or fight. United States reached a compromise to prevent war.
What is number 3?
500
To change some aspects of society
What is reform?
500
This land was acquired post American Revolution and gave United States land up until the Mississippi River giving US a trade route
What is the Treaty of Paris 1783 land?
500
This reformer wrote about his own experience as a slave and advocated for the abolition of slavery through his famous news paper, The North Star
Who is Frederick Douglass?
500
The Second Great Awakening led to this. People began to "see" certain issues in the United States.
What are Reform Movements?
500
Which land acquisition worried abolitionists post Mexican-American War about the expansion of slavery in the United States?
What is number 4?