Advancement in Transportation
A railroad that ran from Omaha, Nebraska to Sacramento, California
What is the transcontinental railroad?
This is one of the causes of the Mexican-American war.
This led to border disputes between Mexico and Texas
What is Texas Annexation?
What country had control over Texas before the United Stated annexed it?
What is mexico?
What was the idea that drove Westward Expansion?
What is manifest destiny?
This person refused to pay his poll taxes because he did not want to fund a war he saw as unjust
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
Extra 100 points: What is Henry David Thoreau doing by not paying his taxes?
The process that allowed railroads to be built in order to carry people and goods to the West
What is The Bessemer Steel Process?
Process of adding new states to the Union
This allows states to expand into new available territory
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
This region primarily relied on manufacturing
What is the economy of the North?
Responsible for painting bird species in the united states and making people more curious about animals in the west?
Who is John James Audubon?
This road improved transportation to the west and expanded trade and settlement
What is the National Road?
Encouraged people to settle on the new land that was gained through the Mexican-American war and Mexican Cession
The Gadsden Purchase
This region primarily relied on agriculture due to their fertile soil and long hot growing seasons
What is the Southern Economy?
a new way of thinking that argued against the teachings of the church and the materialistic habits of the middle and upper classes and instead focused on artistic expression and nature
What was Transcendentalism?
This group settled in Utah in order to escape religious persecution for their beliefs
What are the Mormons?
This allowed more efficient movement of goods on rivers
What is the steamboat?
The United States was able to achieve its goal of manifest destiny and spread to the pacific ocean with this land acquisition.
This land acquisition was negotiated peacefully with Britain
What is the Oregon Treaty?
The economy of this region primarily relies on mining due to rocky soil and the land being rich in minerals
What is the Western economy?
Some states believed that they should have the power to annul or nullify laws made by the national government.
What is the nullification crisis?
EXTRA 200 POINTS:
What state wanted to nullify the tariff and why?
This led to rapid growth of cities in the northeast
Consisted of digging ditches that could be filled up with water to allow transportation of boats to the Great Lakes
What is the Erie Canal?
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
FOR 100 EXTRA POINTS:
Name all 7 modern day states that we got through the Mexican Cession
This land was seen as a new beginning for people as a chance for people to change their lives
What was the western frontier?
Passed in 1862 & allowed 160 free acres of land to any “head of household”
What is the homestead act?