Westward Migration
A widely held belief that incorporating new territory was sanctioned by god
What was manifest destiny?
___________ admitted California into the Union as a free state, strengthened fugitive slave laws, and abolished the slave trade in DC.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
Impact of Railroads on Indigneous Nations
What was the hunting of buffalo, the devastation of the Native population, and the acquistion of Native lands, disruption of intertribal trade?
Treaty that ended Mexican-American War
What was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
How did the Industrial Revolution change American economy?
Agrarian economy to one based on manufactured products. Factories increased, and farmers started losing their jobs. People began moving to cities.
The richest known U.S. deposit of silver (located in Nevada)
What was Comstock Lode?
The _______ was a product of radical republicans trying to make African Americans equal citizens
What was the Ku Klux Klan?
"Interconnected the nation"
"effective, reliable, faster mode of transportation"
"made the western US more important to economy"
Three States that were ceded to America in the treaty that ended the Mexican American War?
What is California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Wyoming?
______ men came to California during Gold Rush.
What was 80,000 men?
An act that granted public land in 160 acre allotments in the West and accelerated settlement
What was the Homestead Act of 1862?
Campaign whose purpose was to ravage southern infrastructure to give North an advantage during Civil War
What was Sherman's March to the Sea (1864)?
How did the Gold Rush increase geographical/sectional tensions?
Rapid population growth and economic development from the Gold Rush accelerated California's admission to the Union as a free state, contributing to sectional tensions over the question of slavery in the West
What were disputes over the Texas land?
List 3 environmental impacts of the Transcontinental Railraod
- mass deforestation
- dust from drilling dumped into river beds
- rivers clogged with settlement
- mercury which polluted local streams and rivers
- strip mining caused erosion
The impetus for Mormons leaving their old settlement in Illinois
What was the murder of Joseph Smith? (Or to escape religious discrimination)
Two key victories for the Union Army that gave them control of the Mississippi River and helped turn the tide of the war.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg and Gettysburg?
________ was the first man to discover gold in the west
Who was James W. Marshall
What was 55%
_____________ was an undesirable area for western settlers due to the harsh climate and lack of wood or water.
What was the Great American Desert?
Supporters of the southern route of a transcontinental railroad were disappointed by this event because the new lands gained in it were too mountainous for their project. Also, an agreement between Mexico and US for the purchase 29,670-mile portion of Mexico.
What was the Gadsden Purchase of 1854?
Plan that blocked all southern ports so trade could not occur
How did the geography and U.S. change after Gold Rush?
turned the once-rural expanse of California into an area dotted with towns and cities
Effect of Mexican American war and treaty that ended it on American society
What was increased sectional tensions and debates over adding more slave states to the Union?
This became the justification behind Manifest Destiny and the takeover of Native and Mexican land.
What is Racial, Cultural, and Political Superiority?