Expansion Fever (ch 15)
Explore This! (ch 16)
Reform, por favor! (ch 18)
North or South? (ch 19)
Vocab
100
This land bought by Thomas Jefferson from France doubled the size of the United States.
What is Louisiana Purchase?
100
This adventure loving group included the American legends Lewis and Clark.
What are Explorers?
100
This philosophy believes people should go beyond logical thinking to find the true understanding of life.
What is transcendentalism?
100
The cheapest and fastest way to move goods in the North.
What are Railroads?
100
To bring changes for improvement, end abuses, or correct injustices.
What is Reform?
200
This sunny peninsula was ceded by Spain to the U.S. in 1819.
What is Florida?
200
This group explored much of the west in search of furs.
Who are Mountain Men?
200
These are Americans who want to end slavery.
What are Abolitionists?
200
Most goods moved in the South were by these.
What are rivers?
200
The changing of hand labor to machine labor.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
300
This territory went from being part of Mexico to independent to a United State.
What is Texas?
300
Looking for religious freedom, this group settled in Utah.
Who are Mormons?
300
Most children did not attend school before the reforms led by this man.
Who is Horace Mann?
300
Cotton became the South's main cash crop because of this machine.
What is the cotton gin?
300
The west coast of the United States, including California and Nevada, that was bought from Mexico.
What is Mexican Cession?
400
President Polk compromised with Great Britain to divide this territory in half, with each country taking half.
What is Oregon Country?
400
The 49ers and Chinese came to California in search of this.
What is gold?
400
Dorothea Dix, Lucy Stone, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth, and the Grimke Sisters were part of this movement.
What is Women's reform movement?
400
The South's political owners were usually also these.
What are wealthy plantation owners?
400
The final piece of U.S. land that was bought to provide a good railroad route from Texas to California.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
500
These 2 territories were lost by Mexico as a result of war.
What are Texas and Mexican Cession?
500
A popular travel route that stretched about 2,000 miles from Missouri to nearly the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Oregon Trail?
500
The gathering of women's rights supporters in July 1848 that launched the women's right to vote.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
500
This is the main reason the North attracted more immigants than the South.
What are more job opportunities in factories?
500
The belief that it was America's right to spread across the continent from sea to shining sea.
What is Manifest Destiny?
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