Westward expansion
Conflicts and Cultures
Technology
Regional Developments
Reform Movements
Compromise
100
Also known as Clinton's Canal, it stretched 363 miles from the Great Lakes to Albany, New York.
What is the Erie Canal?
100
The Cherokee were the hardest hit tribe during forced relocation. They called their journey to Indian Territory Nunna daul which translates to_________.
What is the Trail of Tears?
100
It was invented by Samuel Morse and changed communication in the 1800s by allowing long-distance communication across the U.S. Continent.
What is the telegraph machine?
100
This act gave land to help poor people start family farms. Formerly enslaved persons known as Exodusters made their way to Kansas for this land.
What is the Homestead Act?
100
Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony were part of this reform movement?
What is the Women's Rights Movement?
100
Compromise written in 1820 that allowed Missouri to be admitted as a slave state and Maine as a free state. The border line of Missouri was put at 36°30' N.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
200
The process of removing from the usual place or land
What is displacement?
200
The Choctaw, Creek (Muscogee), Cherokee, Chickasaw, and Seminoles who tried to stay on their lands by acting like the white settlers
Who are the Five Tribes?
200
Union Pacific and Central Pacific companies constructed this on each side of the U.S., meeting at Promontory Point, Utah.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
200
This was known as an agrarian society.
What is the South?
200
Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Sojourner Truth were members of this movement.
What is the Abolition movement?
200
Part of this Compromise led to California becoming a free state and allowing the Fugitive Slave Act in the South.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
300
It's what this painting represents
Manifest Destiny (or Westward Expansion)
300
The _______ called themselves the "Unconquered People". Led by Chief Osceola went to war with the U.S. Army to keep from being displaced to Indian Territory but eventually lost.
Who are the Seminoles?
300
The first of these in the U.S. opened in 1793 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island causing quick industrialization in the North.
What is a cotton-spinning mill?
300
Immigration numbers increased between 1750-1850. The main push for immigration was _____________ factors.
What is economic?
300
Harriet Tubman is the most known conductor of this system.
What is the Underground Railroad?
300
Although not a compromise, this took place in South Carolina in 1832-33 and focused on the debate over tariffs and power of the federal government.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
400
Settlers began moving into Texas causing tension regarding slavery and not following Mexico's rules. In 1836 General Santa Anna defeated a group of Texans at an abandoned Spanish Mission known as _____.
What is the Alamo?
400
Court decision stating that the Constitution said that Native American nations were independent nations under federal supervision, therefore the states had no authority over Native American lands
What is the Worcester v Georgia Supreme Court case
400
Eli Whitney invented this machine which made it easier to remove seeds from the cotton plant but required more enslaved workers.
What is the cotton gin?
400
A preference for people born in one's own country rather than immigrants.
What is nativism?
400
This woman was known to advocate for mental health and prison reform.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
400
Due to the Fugitive Slave Act written into the Compromise of 1850, this political party formed by the Free Soiler's antislavery sentiment.
What is the Republican Party?
500
This was signed on February 2, 1848 bringing an end to the Mexican-American War and expanded the U.S. lands with the area known as the Mexican Cession.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
500
It gave U.S. presidents extensive power to negotiate with Native Americans east of the Mississippi River to move westward into Indian Territory.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
500
African American, Norbert Rillieux, develped this device which improved the production of sugar, a staple crop in Louisiana.
What is the multiple-effect evaporator?
500
A major issue between the North and South due to their different economies and way of life.
What is sectionalism?
500
This reform movement was mostly women and church members who wanted to reduce or eliminate alcohol consumption due to the social problems it caused.
What is the Temperance movement?
500
This act created in 1854 allowed settlers, not Congress, to decide the issue of slavery in their state which led to violent clashes between abolitionists and slavery supporters.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
600
This 2,000 mile trail started in Independence, Missouri and ended in Oregon City, Oregon, making Westward expansion even more possible. A video game is named after it.
What is the Oregon Trail?
600
The Indian Appropriations Act in 1851 established areas known as __________ where the U.S. Government forced Native Americans to live.
What are reservations?
600
A This snag boat was developed by _____________ which opened transportation along rivers that would get blocked with snags (fallen logs).
Who is Henry Miller Shreve?
600
Many German immigrants entered the U.S. through New Orleans and settling in the area. This area became known as the __________________ and became famous for the largest enslaved revolt in U.S. history.
What is the German Coast?
600
Education reformer known as the "Father of the American public school"
Who is Horace Mann?
600
John Brown, who participated in Bleeding Kansas, attacked a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry in 1859. It is called _____________.
What is John Brown's Raid?