Inventions, Roads, and Railroads
The spread of slavery in the South was due in part to this invention, created by Eli Whitney.
What is the cotton gin?
This is the name of the belief held by many Americans that God gave them the right to continue claiming territory until they reached the Pacific Ocean
What is Manifest Destiny?
What is religious freedom?
This nickname refers to the over 90,000 miners who rushed to California for a chance to strike it rich during the Gold Rush
What is "forty-niners"?
This is the name of the road built by the US government to make travel to the West easier for migrants
What is the National Road?
This process, used in factories, involved making parts of the exact same shape and size in order to build products faster
What is mass production?
This river now forms the border between Texas and Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande?
This term refers to a sudden, unexpected attack on an enemy
What is a raid?
This is a term for someone who takes risks to start a business
What is an entrepreneur?
This businessman took advantage of the Gold Rush in San Francisco by creating durable, long-lasting work pants made of blue denim
Who is Levi Strauss?
In 1831, Cyrus McCormick invented this device to make cutting grain easier
What is the mechanical reaper?
This agreement officially ended the Mexican War in 1848. It also gave the US over 525,000 square miles of land.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Most trails West ran parallel to this geographic feature
What is a river?
This system of carrying mail by horse was later replaced by the telegraph
What is the Pony Express?
This term means "to incorporate a territory into a state or country"
What is "annex"?
This human-made waterway cut travel time between Albany and Buffalo from 20 days to only 8. It also made shipping freight ten times cheaper.
What is the Erie Canal?
This event, which took place in 1846, is considered the beginning of the Mexican War.
What is the Mexican troops crossing the Rio Grande to attack the Americans?
This is the term for an opportunity that attracts migrants to a new country.
What is a pull factor?
While some miners preferred the simplicity of panning for gold, others used this long, sloping wooden box to help collect it
What is a sluice?
California officially became the 31st state in this year
What is 1850?
When this Brit came to America, he brought the secret knowledge of how to build a spinning machine with him. This knowledge would revolutionize the textile industry.
Who is Samuel Slater?
This is the name of the final agreement between the Mexican and US governments in 1853 following the war. Because of it, the US gained the final pieces of what is today New Mexico and Arizona.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
This Christian missionary was the first white woman to cross the Rocky Mountains
Who is Narcissa Whitman?
This is where James Marshall first discovered gold in California
What is Sutter Mill?
This was the name of the first true railroad in the United States
What is the B&O (or the Baltimore & Ohio)?