Definitions
The incorrect idea of a white man's God given right to move westward and take over the Native American's land.
What is Manifest Destiny?
160 acres of plains
What is the amount of land you could purchase because of the Homestead Act?
The first successful steamboat.
What is the Clermont?
The percentage that the price of goods dropped because of the Erie Canal.
What is 90%?
An artificial waterway constructed to allow the passage of boats or ships inland or to convey water for irrigation.
What is a canal?
The total amount of acres that was divided up into homesteads.
What is 2.5 million acres?
The "highways" of the 1800s. They were used to transport goods across the country.
What were waterways?
The century when people strongly believed in Manifest Destiny.
What is the 19th century?
A 1,912-mile continuous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 that connected two already existing railroads by the Pacific and in the Midwest.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
The amount of time you need to live on your new land.
What is 5 years?
This railroad was completed in 1869.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
The name of a painting that portrayed Manifest Destiny.
What is "American Progress?"
A canal in New York that links the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes.
What is the Erie Canal?
A requirement to be able to purchase land.
What is not having ever been against the government?
This canal spanned 363 miles over New York.
What is the Erie Canal?
The most important port in America.
What is New York city?
A feeling of pride in one's country.
What is nationalism?
Person who can purchase land.
What is any U.S. citizen?
Inventor of steam locomotive.
Who is Richard Trevithick and George Stephenson?
The expansion of the United States that Manifest Destiny fueled.
What is Westward expansion?