Territory
This purchase doubled the size of the US.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
These two people led the expedition of the territory gained in the Louisiana Purchase.
Act of Congress that removed Indigenous people from their lands to "Indian Territory."
What is the Indian Removal Act (1830)?
Used steam to move boats upstream and downstream.
What is the steamboat?
Told Europe to not colonize or interfere with the Americas.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
What is the Texas Annexation?
This woman served as a guide and translator for Lewis and Clark.
Who is Sacagawea?
Trail Indigenous people took during their forced removal from their homelands.
What is the Trail of Tears?
Used steam to pull trains on tracks.
What is the steam locomotive?
War that led to a stronger sense of nationalism and independence in the US.
What is the War of 1812?
Treaty signed with Spain that gave America Florida.
What is the Adams-Onis Treaty?
Who are the 49ers?
-Cheap or free land in the West
-Opportunities for farming, ranching, and business
-Gold, silver, and other natural resources
-Adventure and new beginnings
-Belief in Manifest Destiny
What are pull factors?
Mechanically cut and gathered grain.
What is the mechanical reaper?
Belief that America was meant to expand for the good and right of the country.
What is Manifest Destiny?
War that led to America gaining CA, NV, UT, and surrounding areas.
What is the Mexican American War?
An example of a challenge faced on the Oregon Trail.
What is disease, exhaustion, accidents, lack of supplies, bad weather/terrain, long distance?
-Lack of farmland or crowded cities in the East
-Money problems, like job shortages
-Poor living conditions
What are push factors?
Sent messages quickly over long distances using morse code.
What is the telegraph?
Impressment, Britain blocking US trade, British involvement in US/Indigenous conflict, and Britian not respecting American Independence.
What are the reasons for the War of 1812?
Line that divided the Oregon Country between Britain and the US.
What is the 49th Parallel?
The United States expanded its territory through purchases, war, innovation, and migration
What is Westward Expansion?
Example of the Cherokee people resisting removal. The Cherokee Nation appeal to the Supreme Court.
What is Cherokee Nation v. Georgia.
This invention increased the need for slave labor.
What is the cotton gin?
This painting represents Manifest Destiny.
What is American Progress by John Gast?