Expansion
This provided 160 acres of government land to those settling in the West.
What is the Homestead Act (1862)?
Mexico closed Texas to immigration from this country.
Who is America?
The precious metal that brought people to California.
What is Gold?
President who gave the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
A former slave, who became an influential abolitionist.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This group went west and founded Utah for Religious freedom.
Who are the Mormons?
The battle cry for the Battle of the Alamo.
What is "Remember the Alamo"
This group went west during the Gold Rush.
Who are the 49ers?
This amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment ?
Inventor of the Cotton Gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
The definition of Manifest Destiny.
What is "the belief that the U.S. is destined by God to expand it's territory and spread its democracy from sea to sea"?
Texas declared independence from this country in 1836.
Who is Mexico?
Explain what it was like finding gold during Gold Rush.
What is finding little gold, and giving up after a few months?
This law required the return of captured slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
A Union General.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This group went west for land.
Who are the farmers?
This man led the army that defeated General Santa Anna at San Jacinto.
Who is Sam Houston?
The immigrant prospectors for the Gold rush
Who are the Chinese?
Who are European and Latin Americans?
The place where the Civil War began.
Where is Ft. Sumter?
The President of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This group were escaped slaves escaping the south and going to Kansas.
Who are the exodusters?
This treaty ended the Mexican American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
The place where gold was first found.
Where is Sutter's Mill?
A major factor that lead to the South wanting to succeed.
What is slavery?
The Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin".
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?