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Vocabulary
Westward Expansion
Romantics & Transcendentalists
Inventors & Thinkers
Miscellaneous Subjects
100
the famous site where Davey Crockett died in the Texas War of Independence and a battle cry of the Mexican-American War "Remember ___ ________"
What is The Alamo?
100
The “49ers” were California-bound after news about this spread nationwide
What is the Gold Rush?
100
James Fennimore Cooper, credited with being the first author to write about American life on the Frontier, most famously wrote this novel
What is Last of the Mohicans?
100
Still a famous name in farming equipment today, he invented the steel plow
Who is John Deere?
100
The Mexican American War ended with the signing of this
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
200
Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony strongly believed in this cause
What is (Women's) Suffrage?
200
This President added more land than any in history by annexing Texas and gaining land in the Mexican Cession, among other acts
Who is James K. Polk?
200
The influential authors of "The Raven" and "The Scarlet Letter"
Who are Edgar Allen Poe & Nathaniel Hawthorne?
200
He is largely credited with inventing the telegraph and a specific code of communication
Who is Samuel Morse?
200
The belief that alcohol should be consumed in moderation
What is temperance?
300
Communities where people lived united by common beliefs, often times sharing property and responsibilities, such as Brook Farm or the Shakers
What are Utopian Societies?
300
Andrew Jackson's most controversial action, motivated by the desire for more land
What is The Indian Removal Act?
300
The transcendentalist author of "Walden" and "Civil Disobedience", this contemporary of Emerson was extremely influential
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
300
These two men invented the cotton gin and reaper, revolutionizing agriculture in the 19th century
Who are Eli Whitney and Cyrus McCormick?
300
the idea that you should not judge a different culture or time period using the standards of your own culture and time period
What is cultural relativism?
400
This Ralph Waldo Emerson-inspired movement that pushed for people to find truth and oneness in themselves as they connected with nature
What is transcendentalism?
400
The US Gov't bought this in 1853, largely for mining and railroad interests
What is the Gadsen Purchase?
400
He was America's first genuine internationally best-selling author and this was his most well-known short story
Who is Washington Irving, and what is "The Legend of Sleepy Hallow"?
400
Robert Fulton and Samuel Slater came to fame for these breakthroughs in America
What are the Steamboat and knowledge of Industrial Revolution/Textile Mills?
400
Noah Webster and Dorothea Dix's biggest contributions to the 19th Century
What are written books on spelling & reading and mental health reform?
500
a group or clique within a larger party, government, or organization
What is a faction?
500
This slogan was an argument used by the President for making the Oregon Territory
What is “54° 40´ or Fight”?
500
This produced numerous painters who defined Romanticism and changed the landscape of American Artwork
What is the Hudson River School of the Arts?
500
Horace Mann helped Massachusetts lead the US in this new idea to America
What are state-run public schools?
500
Jackson's explanation for his 1824 loss to John Quincy Adams
What is a "corrupt bargain"?