Vocabulary
People
Partys/Compromises
Westward Expansion
Random
100
This was when British soldiers forced American soldiers to be in their military.
Impressment
100
This person engineered a steel plow.
John Deere
100
In this compromise the north got California, slave trade ends in D.C., and Mexico loses Texas. And the south gets the Fugitive Slave Act.
Compromise of 1850
100
What were the pioneers that settled on land they didn't own were called this..
Squatters.
100
What treaty establishes border between British, Canada & the U.S. And the U.S. agreed to stop slave trading
Webster- Ashburton Treaty
200
This was the belief that God wanted Americans to settle the western lands.
Manifest Destiny
200
This man helped the midwestern agriculture receive a boost because of the mechanical reaper.
Cyrus McCormick
200
This party is formed by different groups of people.
Republican Party
200
What is another name for vaqueros?
Cowboys.
200
In this war Northern California rebels against Mexico and became a free state.
Mexican-American War
300
Shut down trading with Britain and France, but harmed American us more than them.
The Embargo Act
300
This man helped people and trade to be able to go upstream.
Robert Fulton
300
This party was against slavery, they didn't want slaves doing jobs that white men could be hired to do.
Free Soil Party
300
These men created paths to help settlers move west.
Mountain Men.
300
This treaty ended the Mexican-American War in 1848.
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
400
Wanted slavery to end.
Abolitionists
400
Eli Whitney made this, which increased the need for slavery.
The Cotton Gin
400
Southerns could send bounty hunters into the North to bring back escaped slaves.
Fugitive Slave Act
400
A major trade route connecting Santa Fe with Independence, Missouri.
Sant Fe Trail
400
This was the election between Henry Clay vs. James K. Polk. Polk won!
Election of 1844
500
When Andrew Jackson moved all the Native Americans
The Indian Removal Act
500
This invention helped people communicate through secret code.
Morse Code
500
This was the first battle-grounds over slavery.
Kansas-Nebraksa Act
500
Texas rebels that held up in an abandoned Catholic Mission.
The Alamo.
500
Mexico gave up states to the U.S.
Mexican Cession
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