Territories
What country did the U.S. acquire the Louisiana Territory from?
Who is: France
Most important waterways in America by 1800.
What is: Mississippi River and/or Missouri River
One economic factor that influenced westward movement that caused a rush of people
What is the California Gold Rush?
What did the steam locomotive do?
What is: provide faster land transportation
What did abolitionists work for?
What is: end slavery
Led hundreds of enslaved African Americans to freedom along the Underground Railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman?
How did the U.S. acquire the Texas Territory?
Texas became in independent republic and joined the US
a journey taken by a group of people for a particular purpose
What is: Expedition
Name one trail that influenced westward expansion?
Oregon or Sante Fe Trail
Eli Whitney
What is: the cotton gin
Abolitionists believed that slavery was 1.___________ 2.____________ 3.___________
What is: 1. morally wrong 2. cruel and inhuman 3. a violation of the principles of democracy
Wrote the Liberator and worked for immediate emancipation of all enslaved African Americans
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
How did the U.S. acquire Florida?
Who is: From Spain in an Adams Onis Treaty
A formal written agreement between two nations
What is: Treaty
What is 1 economic factor that influenced westward expansion?
What are: gold, logging, farming, and freedom for runaway slaves
Jo Anderson and Cyrus McCormick
What is: horse drawn reaper
played a leadership role in the women's rights movement
Who was Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Worked for African Americans and women to better their lives and wrote The North Star
Who is Frederick Douglass?
How did the U.S. acquire the California Territory?
Who is: War with Mexico
Led an expedition to explore lands of the Louisiana Purchase.
Who is Lewis and Clark
What is 1 factor that influenced westward expansion?
What are: population growth; cheap fertile land; economic opportunity; cheaper and faster transportation; knowledge of overland trails; belief in the Manifest Destiny (pick 1)
Robert Fulton
What is: steamboat
an advocate to gain voting rights for women and equal rights for all
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
An act that forced the Cherokee nation and other tribes to give up their lands east of the Mississippi River and to relocate to an area in present day Oklahoma. This journey became known as the Trail of Tears.
The American Indian Removal Act
What country did the U.S. acquire the Oregon Territory from?
Who is: Great Britain
Dove into the waters to rescue important papers and a compass from a capsized boat
Who is Sacagawea?
What are 2 factors that influenced westward expansion?
What are: population growth; cheap fertile land; economic opportunity; cheaper and faster transportation; knowledge of overland trails; belief in the Manifest Destiny (pick 2)
The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the U.S. throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable
What is the Manifest Destiny?
a nationally known advocate for equality and justice
Who is Isabella (Sojourner) Truth?
Court case where the Supreme Court decided that the Cherokee Indians did have rights to their land, but the court refused to issue a decision, so nothing was accomplished
What was Cherokee Nation v. Georgia?