Westward Expansion
The idea that God had given the American continent for Americans to settle
What is Manifest Destiny?
This invention uses Morse Code to communicate across vast distances
What is the telegraph?
These were the two largest immigrant groups to the US in the mid-19th century.
What are Irish and German?
This religious movement led many people to believe that they had the power to change society
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This mill town was where Mr. Benson went to high school
What is Lawrence?
What is the Oregon Trail?
During the Industrial Revolution, the production of goods moved out of home workshops and into these.
What are factories?
These are the two types of motivations that immigrants have in leaving their native country and coming to a new land.
What are push and pull factors?
Women at the Seneca Falls Convention (1848) changed the Declaration of Independence to include themselves
This is difficult was faced by German immigrants in America but not by the Irish
What is a language barrier?
Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act led to this forced removal of Natives from Georgia
What is the Trail of Tears?
This invention from the Industrial Revolution allowed goods to be shipped easily up and down the Mississippi River.
What is the steamboat?
Most German immigrants settled in this area of the United States.
What is the western frontier?
Some women in the Women's Rights Movement got their start in this reform movement
What is abolition?
This crop was "king" in the South
What is cotton?
This territory gained its independence from Mexico and was a separate republic for 10 years before being annexed by the United States.
What is Texas?
This became the most significant mill town in MA during the Industrial Revolution.
What is Lowell?
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
What is The New Colossus?
She was an important part of the women's rights movement and was arrested multiple times for voting illegally
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
The number of potatoes that the average poor Irish person ate per day before the Famine.
What is 40-60?
These states are made from territory gained from Mexico in the Mexican-American war. (Name two)
What is California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming?
These were formed by workers to try and fight for better working conditions in factories.
What are unions?
This political party in America was opposed to the waves of immigration in the 19th century.
What is the Know-Nothing Party?
This concept meant that women were expected to build a virtuous home and raise children
What is true womanhood?
This party of westward travelers were tragically stuck in a mountain pass. The majority died and the survivors were forced to resort to cannibalism.
What is the Donner Party?