Land Acquisitions
$15 million, 828,000 sq mile land acquisition completed between Thomas Jefferson and France in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Building that houses machines to turn cotton in to cloth used for things like clothes, linens and table cloth.
What is a textile mill
Immigrant group that settled mostly on the western coast of the United States and are credited with supporting the building of San Francisco and the railroad system.
Who are the Chinese?
Historical Thinking skill that determined reliability of a source by analyzing information about the creator.
What is sourcing?
The phrase used to describe the belief that it was predetermined that the United States would expand to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Modern day state acquired following the Mexican American directly north of the Baja Peninsula
What is California?
Advantageous invention that allowed messages to be sent over land.
What is the telegraph?
Native American group that inhabited the modern day state of Florida and were decimated by military campaign led by future president Andrew Jackson
Who are the Seminoles
Historical thinking skill that determines reliability of a source by comparing details of a source with other sources to find what they agree upon.
What is corroboration?
Territory where Louis and Clark ended their famous journey.
What is Oregon?
Area secured by the Treaty of Paris between The United States and Great Britain.
What are the Original 13 States?
A large building or set of building housing many machines that work together to create a finished product that made manufacturing more efficient in the 19th century.
What is a factory system?
Native tribe that was removed from modern day Georgia and forced to move 1000 miles west in The Trail of Tears. Also the name of a popular SUV.
Who are the Cherokee?
Historical thinking skill that determines reliability of a source by analyzing the claims and evidence provided within the source.
What is close reading?
Ideology that favored American born citizens that led to mistreatment of of immigrant populations in the United Stated during the 19th century
What is nativism?
Territory the earned its independence then asked to join the United States as a state in 1845
What is Texas
Patented machine that allowed for the processing of short-staple cotton and caused slavery in the US to expand.
What is the cotton gin?
Immigrant group that fled Europe in the mid 1800s in the midst of a famine related to diseased potatoes.
Who are the Irish?
Analysis of historical events provided by a historian after researching the causes, details and consequences of a historical event.
Something about a country that might make someone want to move there if they decide to leave their home.
What is a pull factor?
The document signed between the United States and Mexico that ended their war and resulted in the US acquiring what is not New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, California and Nevada.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
A technological advancement that allowed individuals to repair their own tools without having to purchase an entirely new version of their product.
What are interchangeable parts?
Immigration station in the San Francisco Bay that processed immigrants from China and other parts of the Pacific Rim.
What is Angel Island?
Historical thinking skill that analyzes the time period that a source is created to better understand the authors perspective and bias.
What is contextualization?
Family who attempted to travel west to get stuck in a snow storm that resulted in such desperate conditions that led to cannibalism among the group in order to survive.
Who are the Donners?