Definitions
A feeling of pride in one's country
What is Nationalism?
160 acres of Plains land
What is how much land can be purchased?
The first successful steamboat
What is the Clermont?
The percentage that the price of goods dropped
90%
The white man's God-given right to move westward and take over the Native American's land
What is Manifest destiny?
The total amount of land divided into homesteads of 160 acres each
What is 2.5 million acres?
The "highways" of the 1800s that were used to transport goods
What are waterways?
The century that people widely believed in Manifest Destiny
What is the 19th Century?
A man-made waterway that linked the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes
What is the Erie Canal?
The time you need to live on the land
What is five years?
This railroad was completed in 1869
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
The painting that portrays Manifest Destiny
What is the American Progress?
A 1,912-mile continuous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Council Bluffs, Iowa with the Pacific coast at the Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisco Bay
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
A requirement needed to purchase land
What is not bearing arms against the U.S. government?
A 363 mile waterway that cuts through New York
What is the Erie Canal?
The most important port in America at the time
What is New York City?
An artificial waterway constructed to allow the passage of boats or ships inland or to convey water for irrigation
What is a canal?
Person that could purchase land
What is any U.S. citizen?
Inventors of the steam locomotive
Who is George Stephenson and Richard Trevithick
The expansion that Manifest Destiny fueled
What is Westward Expansion?