Industrial Revolution
The major change in production during the Industrial Revolution
Making things by hand to making things by machine
This belief, given by the God, in "one nation under God"; had the United States destined to control all of North America
Manifest Destiny
This piece of land, purchased from the French, focuses the United States of Westward Expansion
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This president presided over the Louisiana Purchase, starting the United States on the path to Westward Expansion.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
You get your mail and your NEIIIGH-bor does too! This service carried mail on horseback from Missouri to California until mail began being carried by train.
What is the "Pony Express"?
What are interchangeable parts?
Who wants some land? This piece of legislation that affected Westward Expansion was giving it away for cheap or free!
What is "the Homestead Act"?
The river to the West of which Native Americans were relocated in order to make room for white settlers to farm.
What is the Mississippi River?
This war hero President was known to spoil people with government jobs, but not the Native Americans who were living in the way of Westward Expansion.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
Their life as a connected pair is now chugging along! Let's hope they stick together! The name given to the meeting of both railway companies building the Transcontinental Railroad in Promontory, Utah.
What is "the wedding of the rails"?
This device, which eventually helped with binary code in computers, revolutionized the textile industry by adding some power to it.
What is the power loom?
A shiny temptation and the ability to "get rich quick" brought settlers in a rush to this territory.
What is California?
This bit of land was ceded after a revolution turned war caused us to "Remember the Alamo".
What is the Mexican Cession?
This hot topic in 1800's America was the reason that when Missouri wanted it, Maine had to become a state as well in a Compromise.
Slavery
This was an unfortunate side effect of the invention of Eli Whitney's cotton gin, due to the amount of cotton that could be cleaned per day.
What is "an expansion of slavery"?
This engine does not run a car, but a system of wires and brushes that remove seeds from the plant in its name.
What is the Cotton Gin?
While it was claimed to be for farming, this law passed under President Andrew Jackson caused what is known as the "Trail of Tears."
What is the Indian Removal Act?
One last piece...This piece of land was the final, if small acquisition of land necessary to build the Transcontinental Railroad
What is the "Gadsden Purchase"?
This President's belief in Manifest Destiny led to the Mexican American War.
Who is James K. Polk?
This group of fiery young ladies began one of the first strikes and first labor unions, run by and for the benefit of working women.
Who are the Lowell Mill Girls?
This invention Revolutionized the transportation of people and goods, powering trains and boats. This could be seen coming out of the ears of a player who gets this wrong!
What is "steam power"?
The construction of and "wedding" of this railway that connected East and West was done mostly by immigrant laborers and Civil War veterans.
What is the "Transcontinental Railroad"?
This stunning West coast territory was considered the end of the long dream of Manifest Destiny, allowing the U.S. to interact with countries in the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Oregon Territory?
The name of the treaty that ended the Mexican American War, named after the small city in Mexico it was signed in.
What is "the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo"?
The often quoted promise made in the Homestead Act, and the amount of land and farming materials it would provide every American. Don't be a donkey and get this question wrong!
What is "One hundred sixty acres and a mule"?