Manifest Destiny
This was name of both an important path to the West and an awesome video game.
The Oregon Trail
The original Oregon territory desired by Americans stretched from present day Oregon state in the south to this country in the North.
British North America
The term for living in the country is? The term for living in the city is?
What is rural? What is urban?
This was bought from France for $15,000,000 and doubled the size of the U.S. This was the year it occurred.
What is the Louisana Purchase? What is 1803?
This religious group was forced West by persecution.
The Mormons
This brought thousands of people to California in 1848/1849.
What is The Gold Rush?
This year was the first year during which the Gold Rush occurred.
1848-1849
Producing goods from raw materials to finished goods all in the same building is called?
What is the factory system?
This treaty allowed us to purchase a peninsula from Spain. This was the name of the territory.
What is the Adams-Onis Treaty? What is Florida?
California wanted to become this, and it led to an event referred to as the....
What is a free state, and it led to the Compromise of 1850.
The change from hand-made goods to large quantities created by machines in a more efficient manner is called
What is mass production?
This land was annexed as a slave state in 1846. The conflict that this acquisition caused.
What is Texas? What is the Mexican War?
The term meaning that the U.S. was meant to gain all of the lands from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 led to a free state and a slave state being created.
What are the free state of Maine and the slave state of Missouri?
This was the name of the treaty that ended the Mexican American War.
Guadalupe-Hidalgo
The term for the change to mass production, using machinery and factories, which led to urbanization and increased immigration, as well as improvements in transportation is called?
What is industrial revolution?
The name of the area shared/divided with another country to avoid another war. The name of the other country.
What is the Oregon Country? What is Britain?
The north got the free state of California. What did the South get in exchange?
What is a stronger fugitive slave act?
The Chinese were banned from mining for gold, so what did they do for work, instead?
What is went to work building the railroads?
The Gadsden Purchase was made to allow what to occur?
What is allow for the building of a transcontinental railroad?
The last piece of territory acquired by the U.S. to finish the contiguous United States. The country it was purchased from.
What is the Gadsden Purchase? What is Mexico?