Westward Expansion
Immigrant groups
Industrial Revolution
Reform Movement
Misc.
Reforms Cont.
100
It is the United States destiny or fate to go from Sea to Shining Sea or from the Atlantic to the Pacific
What is Manifest Destiny
100
This immigrant group came her for the gold rush, but ended up building the railroad.
Who are the Chinese?
100
The change from the cottage industry or making things at home to making things in a factory.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
100
This reformer wanted public schools for all children and teacher training colleges.
Who was Horace Mann?
100
This invention connected the East to the West.
What is the railroad?
100
Women fought for "suffrage".
What is the right to vote?
200
Won the Election of 1844 by promising to complete Manifest Destiney.
Who is James K. Polk
200
This immigrant came here due to the potato famine. They built canals and railroads, and created labor unions.
Who are the Irish?
200
Eli Whitney developed a system that allows things, such as guns to easily be fixed instead of totally replacing it.
What are Interchangeable parts?
200
This group of reformers wanted to end slavery.
Who are the abolitionists?
200
This reformer wanted to help the disabled and fix the prisons.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
200
He wrote the North Star.
Who is Fredrick Douglass?
300
The United States wanted all the land to the Pacific Ocean. This is a Political, Social, or Economic reason for Westward Expansion.
What is political?
300
This immigrant group brought to the United States the idea of Kindergarten, Christmas trees, Grimm's Fairy Tales, and the Polka.
Who are the Germans?
300
The increase in industrialization in the cities resulted in the growth of cities.
What is Urbanization?
300
This group of reformers fought for the right to suffrage and includes Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
What is Womens' Rights?
300
The basis to the U.S. economic system that allows for private enterprise, competition, private property, profit motive, and consumer sovereignty.
What is Free Enterprise?
300
William Lloyd Garrison wrote an abolitionist newspaper.
What is the Liberator.
400
The cities are crowded and people are looking for an opportunity for a better life. This is a political, social, or economic reason for westward expansion.
What is social?
400
This group was being persecuted for their religious beliefs and moved to Salt Lake City, Utah.
Who are the Mormons?
400
The growth of cities along railroad routes created a new businesses.
What are commercial markets?
400
This group of reformers believed that you can find peace in nature and protesting with "Civil Disobedience". The two most famous are Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Who are the transcendentalist?
400
This war was fought to acquire the land all the way to the Pacific. The war was started over a border dispute and ended with the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo.
What was the U.S. Mexican War?
400
The women's rights movement had a convention in New York where Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote the Declaration of Sentiment.
What was the Seneca Falls Convention?
500
The United States wanted cheap land, new markets for trade, and gold. This is a political, social, or economic reason for Westward Expansion.
What is economic?
500
This group rushed to California in 1849 in search of gold, resulting in California becoming a state in 1850.
Who are the 49ers?
500
This device allowed people to communicate with other faster using Morse code.
What is the telegraph?
500
A religious revival that led to social change as people were commanded to go out and do good in society.
What is the 2nd Great Awakening?
500
Eli Whitney's invention that made cleaning cotton easier resulting in more cotton being planted and the increase in slave labor.
What is the Cotton Gin?
500
This reform group wanted to ban alcohol.
What is temperance?