Industrial Revolution
Eli Whitney invented many things that helped increase productivity in the United States. Which three inventions did Eli Whitney create during the Industrial Revolution?
1. The Cotton Gin
2. Interchangeable Parts
3. Mass Production
What word means:
Making many products at once
Mass Production
Who was the President of Mexico during the Texas Revolution?
President Santa Anna
Why did we go to war with Mexico?
We disagreed on the border between Texas and Mexico, and Mexico was angry that we annexed Texas.
Which heavily traveled route started in Missouri and ended in the Oregon Territory?
The Oregon Trail
What transportation invention created by Robert Fulton allowed for faster travel on water?
Steamboat
What word means:
The amount of good and services made by a worker in a certain amount of time.
Productivity
What were the Mexican settlers living in Texas known as?
What were the American settlers in in Texas known as?
Tejanos and Texians
What word means:
A town whose population grows very quickly
Boomtown
Wagon trains
What transportation invention allowed for faster land travel and led to the development of thousands of miles of railroad?
Steam locomotive
What word means:
Cloth or fabric
Textile
The Mexican army attacked and captured a military fort in San Antonio, a crushing defeat for the Texan rebels, in which battle?
The Battle of the Alamo
What word means:
Joining two countries or pieces of land together
Annexation
Which country originally owned the Oregon Territory and signed a peace treaty with the U.S. in 1846, giving us the land?
Great Britain
What kind of waterway was created for more efficient transportation across land?
Canals
What word means:
Something that is given up
Cession
Who was the leader of the Texan army and later became the President of Texas?
Sam Houston
What word means:
Gold miner who went to California in 1849 during the Gold Rush
Forty-Niner
How did the California Gold Rush impact California?
More than 250,000 people rushed to California, making it possible for California to become a state two years later.
Who created textile mills with machines that turned cotton into cloth, utilizing two different machines?
Francis Lowell
What word means:
A person who takes risks to start a new business
Entrepreneur
Immediately after winning their independence from Mexico, Texas voted to join the United States. Why did 8th President Martin Van Buren not agree to annex Texas?
Why did 11th President James Polk immediately agree to annex Texas ten years later?
President Martin Van Buren did not want a war with Mexico and did not want to add another slave state to the Union.
President James Polk was determined to complete Westward Expansion (Manifest Destiny).
What did the U.S. win from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
1. Annexation of Texas
2. The Rio Grande as the border between the U.S. and Mexico
3. The Mexican Cession (the entire American Southwest)
How did opportunity cost affect Forty-Niners and their decision to move west?
Opportunity: The slight possibility of finding gold.
Cost: Selling their homes and businesses; moving across the country; paying high prices for housing and food in California