Name that Annexation!
This island territory in the Caribbean, annexed after the Spanish-American War, is having a fascinating conversation today about whether or not to become America's 51st state or to declare independence from the United States.
What is Puerto Rico?
This food source for Native Americans almost went extinct as a result of westward expansion.
What are buffalo/bison?
This is the name of the railroad project that stretched all the way across the country, ending in Sacramento, CA.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This invention helped prevent cattle from escaping their pastures.
What is barbed wire?
What is empire?
If they made a Top Ten Anime Betrayals video about American History, Teacher Traynor would include this annexation. We bought this territory from Spain after helping this territory try to get independence from them.... messy, right?
What is the Philippines?
This law gave free land out west to anybody who was willing to farm it for five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
Immigrants from this Asian country were brought to help build railroads from west to east.
What is China?
This predecessor to the telephone helped make communication over long distances possible.
What is the telegraph?
a word that describes the rapid growth of cities
What is urbanization?
What is Hawaii?
Gold was found in this state, prompting a huge migration west.
What is California?
This robber baron was known for creating a railroad monopoly after several railway companies collapsed.
Who is JP Morgan?
This invention made it much easier to create written correspondence, making business easier.
What is the typewriter?
The belief that the United States should increase their territory.
expansionism
This massive annexation cost us only 2 cents an acre. That's only about 48 cents today -- an amazing deal! However, Americans at that time did not appreciate this new land and called the deal to get it "Seward's Folley."
What is Alaska?
This mail delivery system made it faster for paper mail to travel out west.
What is the Pony Express?
Andrew Carnegie built his empire when he realized that the rail companies would need a lot of THIS to build the railroads.
What is steel?
Where is Teacher Traynor from?
Pittsburgh!
This is what they call workers who return to work while their union is on strike.
What is a scab?
Everybody forgets about this teeny tiny territory in the Pacific Ocean that the United States annexed after the Spanish-American War.
What is Guam?
This is the belief the United States had a God-given right and duty to expand their territory across the North American Continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The Transcontinental Railroad was built from two ends: going east from Sacramento, CA and going west from Omaha, NE. They met in the middle near which modern day city?
What is Salt Lake City, Utah?
What is the best basketball team in the WNBA?
New York Liberty
This is a political party and philosophy based on the idea that the government is designed to serve the people, not the ultrawealthy.
What is populism?