Vocabulary
the development of industries in a country or region on a wide scale
What is industrialization?
These factors cause people to leave their country.
What are Push Factors?
This invention improved product efficiency by cleaning cotton faster.
What is the Cotton Gin.
The belief that America had the God-given right to expand westward from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean
What is Manifest Destiny?
1845
What is Texas?
the formal giving up of rights, property, or territory by a state
What is cession?
This group of immigrants left their country due to a Potato Famine.
Who are the Irish or Ireland?
This invention allowed people to move their goods up and down a river quickly. Invented by Robert Fulton in 1807.
What is the steamboat.
This purchase doubled the size of the United States
What is the Louisiana Purchase of 1803?
This area was purchased from France for 15 million dollars.
What is Louisana?
This is when a territory is added to another State.
What is annexation.
This group of immigrants gave us the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus and the weekends.
Who are the Germans?
or Germany.
I am the American Inventor that invented the cotton gin
Who is Eli Whitney?
This area was ceded by Spain in 1819.
What is Florida?
This area was ceceded by Mexico
What is the Mexico Cession?
a journey or voyage undertaken by a group of people with a particular purpose, especially that of exploration, scientific research, or war
What is an expedition?
This group moved to the West Coast because of the California Gold Rush.
This invention was completed in 1869. It was built by thousands of Chinese and Irish immigrants.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad .
This area was annexed in 1845.
What is Texas annexation.
Cession
What is Florida Cession?
This term is when the population shift from rural to urban areas.
Urbanization
This group helped build America's infrastructure; including the Brooklyn Bridge.
Who are the Irish or Ireland?
Developed in 1837 by Samuel Morse , this invention improved long-distance communication. It worked by sending signals over a wire between telegraph stations.
What is the telegraph?
These guys went on an expedition to make maps, notes, and pictures of the geography, Native American languages, plants and animals.
Who are Lewis and Clark.
This area was split with Great Britain. Great Britain took the Northen Part and America took the Southern Part
What is the Oregon Territory?