This brought settlers including immigrants and goods to new markets in the west.
What are railroads?
100
Provided cheap labor (handled explosives) for the construction of railroads.
Who are the Chinese Immigrants?
100
Discovery of gold in this state attracted over 80,000 settlers.
What is California?
100
Established northeastern boundary between the United States and British claims in Canada (northern border of present day Maine)
What is the Webster-Ashburton Treaty?
200
Used Morse Code as a means of communication to overcome the threat of isolation and therefore encourage settlement in Western cities resulting in the expansion of potential markets.
What is the telegraph?
200
Confronted with significant discrimination and racism based on stereotypes of inferiority.
Who are the Chinese and Irish Immigrants?
200
Businesses developed to provide goods and services for miners. This resulted in...
What is supply and demand?
200
The United States has the God-given right to expand from coast to coast (to the Pacific Ocean-the entire continent)
What is Manifest Destiny?
300
Enabled women to become a part of America's workforce.
What is the sewing machine?
300
Provided cheap, unskilled labor for mass production in factories.
Who are the Irish Immigrants?
300
24,000 of these 80,000 settlers in California were of what population?
What is the Chinese?
300
Limited ________ +High ____________ = High price (profit for business)
What is supply and demand?
400
Pollution, deforestation (clearing of land), soil"exhaustion" of nutrients, destruction of animal habitats, near extinction of the buffalo, and forest and prairie fires.
What are environmental consequences of technology?
400
Provided soldiers for the United States army.
Who are the Irish Immigrants?
400
As a result of the Gold Rush, this port city became the first major city on the west coast.
What is San Francisco?
400
John O'Sullivan
What is Manifest Destiny?
500
Symbolized a contributing factor to the onset of the Women's Rights Movement.
What is the sewing machine?
500
These people had to pay exclusive tax in California reserved for only foreign miners.
Who are the Chinese Immigrants
500
When the gold rush concludes, the businesses continue to progress and California transforms from a rural, agricultural region to.....
What is an area composed primarily of cities and diverse (immigrant) populations?
500
This led to mass production in manufacturing and industry.