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Inventions, Roads, and Railroads
The Lone Star State
Trails to the West
The California Gold Rush
All-in-All
100
A human-made waterway
What is a canal?
100
The idea that the United States had a right to add territory until it reached the Pacific Ocean.
What is manifest destiny?
100
A line of wagons traveling as a group
What is a wagon train?
100
Unfair treatment
What is discrimination?
100
This was the year we made the Louisiana Purchase.
What is 1803?
200
Invented the mechanical reaper
Who is Cyrus McCormick?
200
This group yelled, "Remember the Alamo!!!"
Who are the Texans?
200
This was the typical covered wagon on the westward trail.
What is a prairie schooner?
200
A yellow metal, soft enough to be formed into beautiful objects
What is gold?
200
I wrote the "Star-Spangled Banner".
Who is Francis Scott Key?
300
A shift from making goods by hand to making them in a factory
What is the Industrial Revolution?
300
This officially ended the Mexican War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
300
This is the number of how many acres of rich farmland was given to married couples that moved to Oregon Country.
What is 640?
300
We're not just a football team's name. We were given this name when over 80,000 people rushed to California for the gold rush.
Who are the "forty-niners"?
300
My nickname is "Old Hickory".
Who is Andrew Jackson?
400
A small but mighty steam engine in the 1830s.
What is Tom Thumb?
400
This general was president of Mexico and lead an army of several thousand men into Texas to end a revolt.
Who is Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna?
400
He was the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as Mormons, new leader.
Who is Brigham Young?
400
This was the year gold was discovered in California.
What is 1848?
400
I am the 5th president.
Who is James Monroe?
500
Lowell's factory relied mainly on young women from all over New England to run the machines. They were called _______________.
Who are mill girls?
500
Texas became a state in this year.
What is 1845?
500
This wagon was rugged and was twice the size of the prairie schooners. They could haul five tons of cargo.
What is Conestoga wagons?
500
This system carried mail by horse.
What is the Pony Express?
500
We came to the United States because of the famine that was going on back home.
Who are the Irish?