This is a belief in the right of the United States to claim new lands.
What is manifest destiny?
100
This man lead the Mormons to Utah.
Who is Brigham Young?
100
Jackson had this Act passed in 1830 which allowed Native Americans to be relocated.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
100
He brought memorized plans of a spinning machine from England illegally and sold it to American business owners.
Who is Samuel Slater?
100
Large groups of wagons that traveled West.
What are wagon trains?
200
These people came to California in 1849 in search of gold, not to play football.
Who are the forty-niners?
200
He created a steamboat named the "Clermont".
Who is Robert Fulton?
200
One of the main reasons Jackson was elected was be cause he was this.
What is a Man of the People or a candidate of The Common Man.
200
Textile mills and other large factories were often built along these to provide power.
What is a river?
200
This current Lone Star State was once a colony of Mexico.
What is Texas?
300
This is a machine used to harvest grain using sharp blades, not very grim.
What is a reaper?
300
Went to the Supreme Court to argue for Native American rights.
Who is John Ross.
300
During Jackson's presidency this state almost left the Union as a way to protest a new tax on imported goods.
What is South Carolina.
300
It connected the East with what was then the Western Frontier.
What is the National Road?
300
This Spanish missionary in San Antonio was changed into a fort and was lost to the Mexicans.
What is the Alamo?
400
A machine that separated cotton form its seeds, invented in 1793 by Eli Whitney, not Eli Manning.
What is the cotton gin?
400
He built a textile factory in Waltham, Ma.
Who is Francis C. Lowell?
400
During Jackson's presidency the Cherokee were forced to travel 800 miles to the Indian Territory along this trail.
What is the Trail of Tears.
400
The building of this was difficult because it was hard to find people to dig the canal, the land along Lake Erie was higher than along the Hudson River, and it was hard to raise the $7 million to build it.
What is the Erie Canal?
400
This treaty ended the war between Mexico and the United States.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
500
A person who forms, runs, and takes the risk of starting a business.
What is an entrepreneur?
500
To this day, you will find the improved plows that he invented to cut through the roots of prairie grass.
Who is John Deere?
500
A main reason why Jackson was elected was because in 1828 these changed.
What are the voting laws?
500
These were coaches set on iron rails and pulled by horses.
What are the first 'rail roads'?
500
This man seized power in Mexico by throwing out the constitution and made himself president for life.