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a strong sense of devotion to one’s country; a feeling of intense loyalty to a country or group
Nationalism
A missionary building in Texas where only 180 soldiers fended off several thousand Mexican soldiers.
The Alamo
a canvas-covered wagon used by pioneers in the mid-1800s
prairie schooners
a part of a machine or device that can be replaced by another, identical part
interchangable part
The idea that the USA had the God-Given right to expand their territory west and into the pacific ocean.
manifest destiny
Allowed grain, livestock, and dairy products to move directly from the Midwest to the East.
Erie Canal
Places that developed very quickly.
boomtown
Drinking little to no alcohol
temperance
Those who spent most of their time in the mountains
mountain men
person who acts as police, judge, and jury without formal legal authority
vigilantes
the fort that begun the civil war
Fort Sumter
A machine that removes seeds from cotton fiber
cotton gin
People who went to California in 1849 because of the gold rush
forty-niners
withdrawal
secession
Person who is running away from legal authority.
fugitive
the right to vote
suffrage
a system for sending messages that uses a series of dots and dashes to represent letters of the alphabet, numbers, and punctuation
morse Code
Slogan referring to the line of latitude they believed should be the nation's northern border in Oregon
fifty-four forty or fight
When someone running for office gets support from the people of his/her own state.
Favorite Sons
War between citizens of the same country
civil war
Armed supporter of slavery who crossed the border from Missouri to vote in Kansas during the mid-1850s.
Border ruffians
Made teaching slaves how to read and write illegal
slave codes
The belief made by Andrew Jackson and van Buren that the government should very rarely interfere with citizen conflict.
Laissez-Faire
You got this!
Those who opposed slavery
Abolitionist