Manifest Destiny
The religious group that was forced West by persecution.
Who were the Mormons
The inventor of interchangeable parts
Who was Eli Whitney
The two factors that encourage people to leave their country and move to another.
What are push and pull factors
The implied power that allows the Supreme Court to determine the constitutionality of a law passed by Congress
What is judicial review
What was the land purchase that doubled the size of the United States?
What was the Louisiana Territory
This was the name of both an important path to the West and a video game.
What was the Oregon Trail
The invention that allowed factories to be located anywhere
What was the steam engine
The job that many immigrants found when they came to America.
What was factory work
The trip that explored the Louisiana Purchase
What was the Lewis and Clark Expedition
This was the name of the land in the west that America took at the conclusion of the Mexican American War.
What was the Mexican Cession
The goal of Manifest Destiny?
What was to expand across North America and to spread freedom
The moving from rural areas to cities which created a denser population in cities.
What was urbanization
The four countries that most immigrants came from in the 1800s to the U.S.
What were China, Ireland, Germany, and England
The first 5 presidents of the U.S.
Who were Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe
The territory gained through a treaty with Great Britain that divided land at the 49th parallel
What is the Oregon Territory
The president who was in office when Manifest Destiny took off.
Who was James K. Polk
The name of the "system" of creating goods in your home before the Industrial Revolution
What was the "cottage system"
Who were nativists
The leader of the Federalist Party
Who was Alexander Hamilton
The treaty that ceded land to the U.S. after the American Revolution.
What was the Treaty of Paris of 1783
Four groups of people who impacted Westward Expansion
Choices from: Missionaries, Mountain Men, Slaves, Mexicans, Chinese, Native Americans, Mormons
The building of this led to faster and more efficient travel for people and goods in New York.
What was the Erie Canal
The political party formed by those who were anti-immigrant.
The act that prohibited anyone criticizing the government during Adams' presidency
What was the Sedition Act
The land purchase from Mexico the U.S. wanted to complete the southern transcontinental railroad.
What was the Gadsden Purchase