Vocabulary
Exploration
Industrial Revolution
Immigration
Inventions
100
the belief that the United States should spread from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean
What is manifest destiny?
100
the area just beyond or at the edge of a settled region
What is the frontier?
100
The Industrial Revolution began here
What is Britain?
100
An immigrant can pass a test on American history and government to become this
What is a naturalized citizen?
100
John Deere invented this to make it easier for farmers tp plow thick soil on prairies and plains
What is the steel plow?
200
parts made by a machine to be exactly the same size and shape as others
What are interchangeable parts?
200
He guided families across the Appalachian Mountains through the Cumberland Gap
Who is Daniel Boone?
200
He used interchangeable parts to make guns quickly for the government
Who is Eli Whitney?
200
This group of people came to the U.S> because of war and crop failures in their country
Who are the Germans?
200
This invention made cotton the nation's largest export
What is the cotton gin?
300
making goods in large quantities using interchangeable parts ans assembly lines
What is mass production?
300
They led an expedition to explore the Louisiana Purchase at the request of President Jefferson
Who are Lewis and Clark?
300
These are the two areas that changed greatly during the Industrial Revolution
What is manufacturing and transportation?
300
The reason that the Irish left their country in the mid-1800s
What is a potato famine?
300
McCormick's invention harvested an acre of grain in a fraction of the time it took to do this by hand
What is the reaper?
400
actions that improve society in order to make it better
What is reform?
400
The U.S. got a large area of land from Texas to California after a war with this country
What is Mexico?
400
This invention led to the building of canals
What is the steamboat?
400
This group left their country in the 1880s to escape religious persecution
Who are the Russian Jews?
400
This allowed factories and farmers to ship their goods to almost any city
What is steam locomotive?
500
a group of people who share a language, culture, or history
What is an ethnic group?
500
This law ordered all Indian nations to move to Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma
What is the Indian Removal Act?
500
People worked here instead of on their own farms or in small workshops
What is a factory?
500
the reason thousands of Chinese people immigrated to the United States
What is the California gold rush?
500
This connected Ohio with the East and was the most heavily traveled raod in the United States
What is the National Road?
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