Unit 5
The reason Britain placed new taxes on American colonists
What is raising money to pay for debt for the Revolutionary War?
Turning point in the Revolutionary War
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
Event in which Jefferson doubles the size of the USA after making a deal with France
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The geographic factor that encourages farmers to move west because of the Homestead Act
What is cheap, fertile land?
The effect the Indian Removal Act has on tribes like the Cherokee
What is the Trail of Tears?
The reason colonists dislike the Proclamation of 1763
What is restricted the westward movement of settlers?
First battle and start of the Revolutionary War
What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
Names of explorers who led an expedition through the Louisiana Territory
Who is Merriweather Louis and William Clark?
Dangerous overland trail that made it possible to travel to the Pacific Northwest
What is the Oregon Trail?
The right the women's suffrage movement protests for
What is the right to vote?
The reasons the colonists were unhappy with Britain
What is the colonists having no representation in Parliament, resenting power of colonial governors, strict Parliament, colonists opposing British taxes and the Proclamation of 1763?
The three branches of the government
What are the legislative, executive, and judicial branches?
New state that becomes a part of the USA after the Mexican-American War
What is California?
This event led to massive population growth in California
What is the California Gold Rush?
The name for the famous Underground Railroad conductor
Who is Harriet Tubman?
An act that imposed taxes on colonists
What is the Stamp Act?
What is the Bill of Rights?
Economic factors that "pulled" people to the west
What is gold, logging, farming, and freedom?
The reason Andrew Jackson wanted to remove Native Americans from eastern states
What is negotiating treaties for land in the west?
The things abolitionists want to abolish
What is slavery?
Date the colonists declared independence
What is July 4, 1776?
Future state that became an independent republic after breaking away from Mexico
What is Texas?
Name of the idea that expanding westward was good and the right thing to do
What is Manifest Destiny?
The Trail of Tears
What is the Cherokee nation's forced journey to Oklahoma due to the Indian Removal Act?
Meeting that started the women's suffrage movement in 1848
What is the Senaca Falls Convection?