Growth, Expansion & Industrialization
The 1803 purchase that doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The 1849 event that drew thousands in search of fortune.
the Gold Rush
These two immigrant groups helped build the Transcontinental Railroad.
Who were the Chinese and Irish?
An increase in agricultual developement of the west led to a ___________in slavery.
Increase
This act forced Native Americans off their ancestral lands.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This invention revolutionized transportation and powered trains and boats.
steam engine
This law gave settlers free or cheap western land.
What is the Homestead Act?
Cowboys adopted their style from vaqueros or ___________
Mecican cowboys
Westward expansion increased tensions that led to this war.
Civil War
Thousands of Native Americans died during this forced relocation.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This communication device allowed information to travel across long distances quickly.
What is the telegraph?
This belief held that it was God’s will for Americans to expand west.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Stories about the “Wild West” became part of this romanticized American story.
What is the frontier myth / American mythos?
Westward expansion gave newly freed African Americans opportunity by______________.
Cheap land, less racist neighbors, freedom to build a future.
The U.S. government targeted this animal to destroy Native food sources.
What is the buffalo?
This U.S. victory and treaty gave the nation California and the Southwest.
What is the Mexican-American War
Some Americans used this illegal method to invade Latin America and spread slavery.
What is filibustering?
Rugged individulism
western philosophy of self-reliance, personal independence, and minimal government assistance
This compromise tried to balance free and slave states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This 1890 event marked one of the worst massacres of Native Americans.
What is Wounded Knee?
Industrialization acted as catalyst for westward expansion by ______________
Making it easier to travel and develope the west
The Monroe Doctrine was a 1823 policy that warned Europe to stay out of the Western Hemisphere, creating am American _________of influence.
Sphere
This belief that America has a unique destiny and moral purpose grew from westward expansion rooted in "Manifest Destiny". American _____________.
Exceptionalism
The End of the Civil War allowed for greater expansion of the west because..
Its now freed land, resources could be used to expand
The phrase “Kill the Indian, save the man” referred to this policy.
What is forced assimilation or resocialization?