Vocabulary
Chapter 11:
Ch. 12: Westward Expansion
Ch. 13: "North and South"
Ch. 14: "The Age of Reform"
100
What vocabulary word means "People who travel to spread religious teachings"?
Missionaries
100
What vocabulary word means, "Trappers and traders of furs in the Western frontier of the USA"?
Mountain Men
100
What was the belief that the United States was fated to expand across the North American continent AND was the main reason that settlers moved to the Oregon Country?
Manifest Destiny
100
What machine used electric signals to transmit messages?
Telegraph
100
What group fought for the right to vote, equal pay as men, and equal education as men in the 1800s.
Women
200
What vocabulary word means, "The right to vote"?
Suffrage
200
What president helped to start the Indian Removal Act?
Andrew Jackson
200
What event in the late 1840s and early 1850s had a large influence on the settlement of California?
The Gold Rush
200
What section of the USA had the strongest industrial economy in the 1800s?
The North
200
Random: What vocabulary word means, "A community experiencing a sudden growth in business or population"?
Boomtown
300
What vocabulary word means "people who take the law into their own hands"?
Vigilantes
300
What was the forced removal of the Cherokee from their lands, resulting in 4,000 deaths?
Trail of Tears
300
MOST forty-niners did not find gold. Who got rich instead?
The merchants (store owners)
300
Short Answer: describe how immigration affected the North:
Immigrants moved to cities and increased their population, worked for low pay and undercut Union workers, they also brought their cultures (language, religion, food, dance, music, traditions).
300
What 3 groups influenced social reforms in the USA in the 1800s?
Women, Abolitionists, Religious people
400
What vocabulary word means, "To make something end, in this case slavery"?
Abolition
400
What vocabulary word means "Attempts to ruin an opponent's reputation with insults"?
Mudslinging
400
Short Answer: How did Mexican lands in the West (CA, AZ, NM, NV) become part of the United States?
Through war, the USA and Mexico went to war and the USA won and then later bought the land from Mexico.
400
What new technologies changed the lives of Northerners in the USA in the mid 1800s?
locomotives (trains), telegraph, and steam power... NOT TELEPHONES!
400
What vocabulary word means, "A system of "safe houses" used as an escape route to the North"?
The Underground Railroad
500
What vocabulary word means "the unfair treatment of a group"?
Discrimination
500
What battle motivated hundreds of volunteers to help fight Mexico in the Texas War for Independence?
The Battle of the Alamo
500
What group of people influenced the settlement of Utah?
Mormons
500
What were rules made to control enslaved African Americans in the South?
Slave Codes
500
What vocabulary word means, "drinking little or no alcohol"?
Temperance
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