Westward Expansion
_________ claimed joint occupy rights of some lands America wanted (Oregon Country).
Britain
Ireland's _____ blight created economic hardships and famine, increasing Irish immigration to the US
Potato
This war involved Mexico and the US and was ended with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
Mexican American War
In 1848, an important women's rights convention took place in ______ _____, NY.
Seneca Falls
When Texas joined the US, it joined as a _____ state. (slave or free?)
slave
______ was the idea that Americans can settle west to the Pacific Ocean by taking land from whomever they want.
Manifest Destiny
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
This Southern state was once its own country before becoming a US state in 1845.
Texas
The _______ movement pushed to end slavery.
Abolition
Unsafe, unsanitary and crowded was how many _____ were described in the mid 1800s.
cities / urban areas
Movement West was partly pushed by the high value of ________ skins which caused over hunting.
Beaver
These people (not a political party) opposed immigration and believed that many immigrants were untrustworthy Catholics taking jobs from real Americans.
Nativists
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
Women's _______ was the push for women to gain the right to vote.
Suffrage
This was the largest group of American pioneers. Their church was founded by Joseph Smith.
Mormons / Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
_________ people were either forcibly removed or left to find a new home on their own out West.
Indigenous
Despite anti-immigrant attitudes pushing many west, ________ sought political freedom in the US.
Germans
This was a signed agreement that impacted US-Mexico relations.
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
This woman helped organize a women's rights convention and write the declaration of sentiments.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
We learned about four different trails that settlers took west during this term. Name three of these trails.
Santa Fe ; California ; Mormon ; Oregon
List at least two reasons why Americans supported the idea of Manifest Destiny:
... up to teacher :)
Increase in immigrants in American cities in the East was in part due to: ________________
The Irish Potato Blight / Famine
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
This was a document created by Women's rights activists. They took the phrase "All men are created equal" from the Declaration of Independence and reworded it to "All men and women are created equal".
Declaration of Sentiments
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