Westward Expansion
Movement West was partly pushed by the high value of ________ skins which caused over hunting.
Beaver
This Southern state was once its own country before becoming a US slave state in 1845.
Texas
CHALLENGE FOR BONUS QUESTION: Pick one person from your group and one person from another group. You will have a dice-roll contest. The winner gets a bonus question for their group.
These were unclean, unsafe, and over populated in the mid-1800s.
Cities
Ireland's _____ blight created economic hardships and famine, increasing Irish immigration to the US
Potato
When Texas joined the US, it joined as a _____ state. (slave or free?)
Slave
This was the idea that Americans can settle west to the Pacific Ocean by taking land from whomever they want.
Manifest Destiny
This war involved Mexico and the US and was ended with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
Mexican American War
The government passed the ________ ____ to help encourage people like farmers to move West.
DAILY DOUBLE! (400 points)
Homestead Act
DAILY DOUBLE! (400 points)
These people (not a political party) opposed immigration and believed that many immigrants were untrustworthy Catholics taking jobs from real Americans.
Nativists
The ______ Compromise of 1820 kept the number of free and slave states equal.
Missouri
The US jointly occupied the Oregon Country with this country for a while:
Britain
CHALLENGE FOR BONUS QUESTION: Pick one person from your group and one person from another group. You will have a rock-paper-scissors contest. The winner gets a bonus question for their group.
This was an agent hired by Mexico to bring settlers to Texas with the understanding that Americans moving to Texas had to obey Mexican laws.
Empresario
This was a time when goods began to be made by machines in factories instead of by hand.
Industrial Revolution
CHALLENGE FOR BONUS QUESTION: Pick one person from your group and one person from another group. You will have a card-draw contest. The winner gets a bonus question for their group.
This political party wanted immigrants to have to live in the US for 21 years before becoming citizens. They opposed immigration. They wanted to keep Catholics and immigrants out of public office
Know Nothing Party
Unsafe, unsanitary and crowded was how many _____ were described in the mid 1800s.
Cities
_________ people were either forcibly removed or left to find a new home on their own out West.
Indigenous
This was a signed agreement that impacted US-Mexico relations.
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
CHALLENGE FOR BONUS QUESTION: Pick one person from your group and one person from another group. You will have a staring contest. The winner gets a bonus question for their group.
This was a movement in the 1800s which encouraged people to strengthen their religious beliefs.
Second Great Awakening
Despite anti-immigrant attitudes pushing many of these people West, ________ immigrants sought political freedom in the US.
Germans
CHALLENGE FOR BONUS QUESTION: Pick one person from your group and one person from another group. You will have a rock-paper-scissors contest. The winner gets a bonus question for their group.
This man was the founder of the Mormon church (Latter Day Saints).
Joseph Smith
Name all four trails west that we have learned about:
Oregon Trail, California Trail, Mormon Trek/Trail, Santa Fe Trail
Name at least 4 states (or parts of states) that the US gained in the Mexican Cession
Utah, Nevada, Texas, New Mexico, Wyoming, Arizona, California, Kansas, Colorado
The Second Great Awakening helped inspire the ______ movement, which sought to end slavery.
Abolition
Increase in immigrants in American cities in the East was in part due to this event affecting crops in Europe:
The Irish Potato Blight / Famine
In the mid-1800s, cities in the United States changed in good and bad ways. A good way was the growth of the _____ _____ and more leisure time for the wealthy.
Middle Class