Lewis and Clark
Lewis and Clark were picked by Thomas Jefferson to explore the _____________ Territory?
Louisiana
True or False: Inventions resulted in more people being needed on farms to run the machines
What is false?
Why did people want to go to California in the mid 1800s?
In search of gold
What is China?
The creation of a new process or device
What is an invention?
State two of the purposes of the Lewis and Clark journey
Collect samples of wildlife
Find a water route to Asia
Establish good relations with Native Americans
Map the territory
These new machines/inventions were made in _________, so people moved to cities to work in them
What are factories?
True or false: California makes up much of the east coast of the United States
What is false?
Boston and New York City became the home for this group of European Immigrants
Who are the Irish?
Having to do with the country
What is rural?
List 2 challenges the pioneers faced on their journey.
Lack of Roads, Mountains
Native Americans
Climate/Seasons
Food shortage
This city's population tripled in the early 1850s and is still the biggest city in the US today
What is New York City?
A person who moved to California in search of Gold in 1849
Who is forty-niner?
About 1 million Irish died from famine due to this crop being wiped out by disease
What is the potato?
Having to do with the city
What is urban?
The interpreter on the Lewis and Clark expedition
Who was Sacagawea?
The inventor of the steel plow, the brand in his name still make tractors to this day
Who is John Deere?
What is farming?
Political and economic problems led to this group fleeing to Chicago and Milwaukee
Who were Germans?
When a large number of people are starving due to a food shortage
The city the mission started in and the ocean they reached at the end
St. Louis
Pacific Ocean
This invention by Cyrus McCormick harvested wheat exponentially faster than any person
What is the reaper?
A large scale farm with sheep, cattle, and horses
What is a ranch?
Three occupations Chinese Immigrants took upon arriving to the US
Merchants
Farmers
Carpenters
Gold miners
A person who moves to a new country with the intention of living there permanently
Who is an immigrant?