Reform & Change
Go West!
Land & More Land!
Inventions
Native Americans
100
Who organized the first woman's rights convention (Seneca Falls Convention) ?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton 
100
What was happening to Eastern cities by the 1800s, in terms of population?
They became overcrowded.
100
What was a territory won after the Mexican-American War?
California
100
How did telegraph change communication?
Americans could send messages in minutes.
100
Who was Lewis and Clark’s Guide?
Sacagawea
200
Who was a famous "conductor" on the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
200
What was discovered in California in 1848/49
California Gold Rush
200
Which country did the United States purchase the Oregon territory from?
England
200
How did locomotive trains and steamboats affect trade?
They connected West and East
200
What was the 5,000 mile forced march from Georgia to Oklahoma; where over 4,000 Cherokees died due to disease, starvation; and cold?
The Trail of Tears
300
Who was a former teacher who was arrested for voting illegally as a woman. 
Susan B. Anthony
300
What was the belief that God told Americans to go west?
Manifest Destiny
300
What territory did the Corps of Discovery (Lewis & Clark) discover?
Louisiana Territory
300
Who invented the steamboat?
Robert Fulton 
300
How did western expansion affect Native Americans?
Western expansion caused Native Americans to leave their land due to ever-increasing white settlement.
400
How did Frederick Douglass help abolition?
He gave public speeches/published his life story/wrote a anti-slavery newspaper: The North Star.
400
The artist Thomas Gast argued in his 1872 painting: "American Progress", Americans should do what?
GO WEST!
400
What territory rebelled against Mexico in 1835 and became an independent country for ten years before joining the U.S.
TEXAS
DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS
400
What was the impact of the Mechanical Reaper?
:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/McCormick-Reaper-litho-3000-3x2gty-56a48a245f9b58b7d0d77177.jpg)
1. It reduced the need for slavery in the North and Midwest.
2. It made farming more efficient (faster and productive).
400
Where did thousands of Native Americans across the country go after the government forced them off their land?
These places often tried to stop Native Americans from practicing their religion; celebrating their holidays; speaking their language, etc.
Reservations :max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/res-5808b9813df78cbc287e2ef8.jpg)
500
Why did suffragists quote the Declaration of Independence often in speeches?
To show equality was a key value.
500
Why was the West attractive to enslaved African Americans?
There was no slavery/"Fresh Start".
500
What country sold Florida for $5 million to the United States.
Florida 
500
How did the cotton gin impact slavery?
It made cotton cheap to make so slavery increased.
500
What was the outcome of the court case, Cherokee Nation v. Georgia?
Hint: Could the state take the Cherokee's land legally?
The Court ruled:
1. the Cherokee were "dependents" of the U.S. Gov't.
2. Georgia could NOT take the land. (President Andrew Jackson disobeyed the court's decision).