This event led to peoples of different cultures settling in California.
What is the gold rush?
100
This man invented the mechanical reaper that allowed a farmer to do the work of five men, leading to more cash crops (wheat, corn) being grown.
Who is Cyrus McCormick?
100
The Erie Canal helped establish this city as a financial center of the United States.
What is New York City?
100
This was the main idea that led to war with Mexico that resulted in the annexation of land from the Rio Grande River to the coast of California.
What is Manifest Destiny?
100
While Texas was under Mexican rule many American settlers wanted to settle there because of this.
What is cheap land?
200
As white Americans traveled west, Indians, buffalo, and bears began to do this.
What is disappear?
200
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, but his biggest contribution to industry was this.
What is interchangeable parts?
200
Early on, rail roads offered more of this than canals did.
What is speed?
200
Santa Anna was defeated during this battle.
What is the battle of San Jacinto?
200
Arguments over this delayed the annexation of Texas.
What is the balance of free states versus slave states?
300
These two points are the beginning and the end of the Old Spanish Trail.
What are Santa Fe and Los Angeles?
300
Charles Goodyear was famous for this.
What is the invention of a new rubber product that didn't freeze or melt?
300
This was the most important impact of the canal era.
What is the opening of the Midwest markets to the world?
300
The territory that is now New Mexico, California, and Arizona was ceded to the United States in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, but this territory was not.
What is Texas?
300
Texas was this for nine years before joining the United States.
What is an independent nation?
400
The trails that led most settlers west, traveled through this many organized territories.
What is five?
400
This man invented a ride able tractor and is still a popular name/brand today.
Who is John Deere?
400
This was the main travel implement used by persons heading west in the early years of westward expansion.
What is the wagon?
400
This General led troops into Mexico during the war and later became president.
Who is Zachary Taylor?
400
Texas declared its independence during this battle.
What is the battle of the Alamo?
500
This belief led to expansion of US territory and the settling of many lands west of the Mississippi River.
What is Manifest Destiny?
500
This invention is credited with causing slavery in the southern United States to increase dramatically.
What is the cotton gin?
500
This era began the movement toward Manifest Destiny by opening markets far inland to the outside world.
What is the canal era.
500
This is the nickname that Santa Anna gave himself.
What is the Napoleon of the West.
500
Texas was once a part of Mexico and had to fight for its independence, this president of the United States was in favor of annexing Texas.