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Vocabulary
The Country Grows
The Industrial Revolution
Moving West
Drawing Conclusions
100
Making many identical products at once.
What is mass production?
100
The purchase of a large area of land west of the Mississippi that belonged to France.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
100
The inventor of the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
100
Congress approved the annexation of this republic in 1845.
What is Texas?
100
A judgment or decision based on facts or ideas
What is a conclusion?
200
One of the first of a group of people to enter or settle in a region.
What is a pioneer?
200
These two explorers led the Corps of Discovery in an expedition to find a water route to the Pacific Ocean.
Who are Meriwether Lewis and William Clark?
200
The most heavily traveled road in 1833 that went from Maryland to Ohio.
What is the National Road?
200
James Polk believed this river should be the border that separated Texas and the United States.
What is the Rio Grande?
200
The first step when drawing a conclusion.
What is study the facts and ideas the author presents?
300
Someone who helps speakers of different languages understand each other.
What is an interpreter?
300
This Shoshone woman joined the Corps of Discovery as an interpreter.
Who is Sacagawea?
300
Waterway built to link rivers to other bodies of water.
What is a canal?
300
Settlers headed west traveled in covered wagons and risked their lives using this dangerous route.
What is the Oregon Trail?
300
Before drawing a conclusion, you should look for _________ among the facts.
connections
400
The act of joining two countries or pieces of land together.
What is annexation?
400
This war was the result of British troops seizing American and ships and capturing soldiers.
What is the War of 1812?
400
Robert Fulton invented this mode of transportation that could travel against currents.
What is a steamboat?
400
Someone who took part in the California Gold Rush.
What is a forty-niner?
400
Your conclusion should state your __________ about the facts and ideas of a passage.
What is an observation or opinion?
500
The edge of a country or region.
What is a frontier?
500
This president signed the Indian Removal Act in 1830.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
500
The fastest form of transportation in the mid 1800s.
What is a steam locomotive?
500
People wanting to sell goods and services to miners flocked to these communities.
What are boomtowns?
500
In the late 1700s, interchangeable parts allowed many products to be created at once rather than one at a time. What can you conclude about the effects of using interchangeable parts?
Productivity increased, more goods were sold and traded, economy was strengthened, etc.