New Territories
Influences of Westward Movement
New Technologies
Trail of Tears
Economy
100
Jefferson bought land from France which doubled the size of the United States
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
100
What would be an attraction for Eastern farmers in the West?
Availability of cheap, fertile land.
100
Who invented the cotton in?
Eli Whitney
100
Who was Andrew Jackson?
President of the United States
100
The economy in the north was depended on?
factories
200
What did Lewis and Clark do?
In the Lewis and Clark expedition, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark explored the Louisiana Purchase from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.
200
What caused people in the East to move west?
What is Population growth in the east
200
How did the cotton gin affect American lives?
It increased the production of cotton and thus increased the need for slave labor to cultivate and pick the cotton.
200
What was the Trail of Tears?
A journey where all Indians were taken from there homes and forced to walk to a new location.
200
The economy in the south was depended on?
Farms
300
How did the U.S. get Florida?
Spain gave Florida to the United States through a treaty.
300
What was an economic opportunity during the Westward Movement?
What is Gold (California Gold Rush) Logging Farming Freedom (for runaway Slaves
300
What did Cyrus McCormick and Jo Anderson do?
They created the reaper
300
Name five Native American Tribes that traveled the Trail of Tears
Cherokee,Creek,Chickasaw,Seminole,Choctaw
300
What transformed the economy in the North?
Industrial Revoultion
400
How did the U.S. get Texas?
Texas was added after it became an independent republic.
400
Name two overland trails used during westward expansion.
What is Oregon Trail and Santa Fe Trail
400
How did the reaper affect American lives?
The reaper increased the productivity of the American farmer.
400
What was the Indian removal act?
An act to remove all Indians to the great plains or present day Oklahoma
400
What transformed the economy in the south?
cotton gin
500
How did the U.S. get California?
War with Mexico resulted in California and the southwest territory becoming part of the United States
500
A belief that expansion was for the good of the country and was our right
What is Manifest Destiny
500
How did the steam locomotive affect American lives?
It provided faster land transportation
500
How long (miles) was the trail of tears?
2,200 miles ( about nine states including water routes)
500
What allowed for better transportation and trade between the south and the north?
steam powered trains
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