Vocabulary
A boat outfitted with steam boiler engines to power the paddle wheels that propel it forward.
What is a steamboat?
This man is known as the "father of American technology". He created the cotton gin in 1793 and patented it in 1794.
Who is Eli Whitney?
This state was very popular in 1849 when people heard that gold could be discovered there.
What is California?
The largest purchase of land in American history.
What is the Louisiana purchase?
This country was the first to colonize Central America and parts of North America.
What is Spain?
A town that experiences a great population increase in only a short period of time.
What is a boomtown?
He was a famous general who defeated the British in the city of New Orleans during the War of 1812. He eventually became president and passed policies that were unfavorable towards Native Americans.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This country fought against the United States to protect their land from being taken. However, the seceded some of their territory to the United States during the end of the war.
What is Mexico?
This political party was represented by Andrew Jackson.
What is a Democrat?
This party was known for throwing tea overboard in the Boston harbor before the Revolutionary War.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
this ended the U.S. government's earlier policy of respecting the rights of Native Americans to remain on land they'd lived for generations.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
She was a famous Native American woman who helped Lewis and Clark on their expedition west.
Who is Sacagawea?
This device helped many miners during the Gold Rush. It was specifically designed to separate gold from the California dirt.
What is a Long Tom?
This Native American tribe chose to assimilate with the United States, and some of the ultimately decided to establish their own nation. However, despite establishing their own nation, they were under constant pressure to leave the region that they lived in.
What is Cherokee Nation?
This was the name of George Washington's army during the Revolutionary War.
What is the Continental Army?
An era in which widespread production by machinery replaced goods made by hand.
This woman helped slaves escape the south and led them to freedom using the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This painting resembled the idea of Manifest Destiny and themes of modernization and new frontiers which reflect a cultural desire to begin anew.
What is American Progress?
Andrew Jackson removed thousands of Native Americans from their homelands and forced them west. Today, the paths they took are known as _____________.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This was the name of a base camp where troops were trained in the freezing cold by George Washington. They trained here in order to prepare to defeat the British in the Revolutionary War.
What is Valley Forge?
The idea that the United States had the right and the obligation to expand its territory across North America to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
These two women organized the Seneca Falls Convention in central New York and issued the "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions".
Who is Elizabeth Stanton and Lucretia Mott?
This seasoned mountain man lived with the Crow tribe for several years. He was also a prospector and a U.S. Army scout, and he learned to overcome many challenges of the frontier.
Who is Jim Beckwourth?
This was the name of a federal bank that Andrew Jackson sought to destroy during his presidency.
What is the Second Bank?
This trade route involved the trading and shipping of goods and slaves between North America, Europe, and Africa.
What is the Triangular Trade?