The Native Americans
Andrew Jackson’s victory in the election of 1828 showed that people liked
What is he wanted to keep the federal government small?
In the 1830s, Americans began migrating to Oregon primarily to
What is escape the economic troubles in the East?
Mexico’s policy toward Texas in the 1820s
What is encouraging American settlement?
Most responsible for the huge increase in California’s population in the late 1840s and early 1850s
What is Gold was discovered in central California?
Invention was most responsible for the increase in Southern cotton production after 1800
What is the cotton gin?
In 1830, President Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act, which permitted the government
What is he pay Native Americans to relocate in the West?
The concept of Manifest Destiny
What is the United States had the right to expand to the Pacific Ocean?
To justify declaring war against Mexico, President James Polk
What is he lied to Congress, claiming that Mexico had attacked U.S. troops on American soil?
“We went into San Francisco…about three months after I had first seen it. Already it was changed out of recognition by the crowds of people added…[T]he sounds of hammers never ceased. Ready-made houses were to be had, and some very pretty little ones from China.”
What is California cities flourished?
The Industrial Revolution in the northern United States began in
What is textile factories?
Seminole response to the Indian Removal Act of 1830
What is they joined with Black Seminoles to attack white settlements in Florida?
Hard economic times during the depression of the 1840s prompted many people to
What is endure the risks of the Oregon Trail to reach fertile farmland and new opportunity?
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
What is extended the western border of the United States to the Pacific coast?
Many of the people who migrated to California during the Gold Rush
What is stayed to farm or run businesses?
The industrial North in the early 1800s did not allow
What is factory workers could not legally go on strike?
The 1835 journey of Native Americans from the Southeast to Indian Territory was so brutal that is came to be called
What is the Trail of Tears?
Mountain men played a role in westward expansion by
What is to create routes and guide settlers to the West?
The siege of the Alamo
What is allowed Texas time to gather troops and supplies to continue their fight for independence?
Miners in the California Gold Rush were called forty-niners
What is large numbers of people migrated to California in 1849 to find gold?
This 19th-century transportation innovation, which began in the 1820s, greatly expanded trade and settlement by connecting eastern cities to the western frontier, and played a key role in industrial growth.
What is the railroad (or specifically, the Transcontinental Railroad)?
In the 1830s, this GROUP of Native Americans was forcibly relocated from their ancestral lands in the Southeastern United States to present-day Oklahoma, a journey that became known as the "Trail of Tears"
What were the Cherokee?
This phrase, coined in the 1840s, described the belief that the United States was destined by God to expand across the North American continent, and it drove many settlers along the Oregon Trail.
What is Manifest Destiny?
As a result of the war with Mexico, the United States acquired most of
What is Arizona and Mexico?
These people profited the most from the California Gold Rush
What is merchants?
In 1876, this inventor was granted the first patent for an invention that allowed for the transmission of clear speech over wires, forever changing communication in the United States and the world.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?