Westward Expansion
This belief stated that the United States was meant to stretch from coast to coast.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This president purchased the Louisiana Territory.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This movement worked to end slavery in the United States.
What is the abolition movement?
The growth of factories and machine production is called this.
What is industrialization?
This economic system allows businesses to operate with limited government control.
What is free enterprise?
This purchase from France doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This woman guided Lewis and Clark on their expedition.
Who is Sacagawea?
This movement fought for equal rights for women.
What is the women’s rights movement?
This canal connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Erie Canal?
This idea means the government should stay out of business affairs or keeping their hands off.
What is laissez-faire?
This treaty ended the Mexican-American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This abolitionist published The Liberator.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
This reformer improved treatment for the mentally ill.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
This power source improved transportation and factory production.
What is steam power?
These settlers moved west to Utah to escape persecution.
Who are the Mormons?
This trail was used by settlers traveling west to Oregon.
What is the Oregon Trail?
This former enslaved person became a powerful abolitionist speaker and writer.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This religious revival inspired many reform movements in the 1800s.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This term describes the growth of cities.
What is urbanization?
This event caused thousands to rush to California in search of wealth.
What is the Gold Rush?
This purchase from Mexico was made to build a southern railroad route.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
These two women helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention.
Who are Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott?
This idea promoted peacefully refusing to obey unjust laws.
What is civil disobedience?
This railroad connected the East and West coasts of the United States.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This document created the process for territories becoming states.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?