A change from making products by hand at home to making products by machines in factories.
What was the Industrial Revolution?
100
Tennessee
Where was Jackson from?
100
Covered wagons
What did people use to travel west in the 1800s?
100
Texas, New Mexico, Nevada, and California
What future states were part of New Spain?
100
The idea that the United States should rule all the land between the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
200
Factories where machines were used to spin cotton thread and weave cloth.
What were textile mills?
200
Andrew Jackson's nickname
What is the "people's President?"
200
The Oregon Trail
What is the name of the trial used to get to Oregon Country?
200
Santa Anna and Sam Houston
Who were the leaders of Mexico and Texas?
200
$15,000,000.
How much money did the U.S. pay Mexico for the Mexican Cession?
300
The machine that separated cotton seeds form the cotton fibers.
What is the cotton gin?
300
Giving a government job to people who support you for a high ranking job.
What is the "spoils system?"
300
The Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains
What were two things people had to cross to get to Oregon Country?
300
4,000 Mexican soldiers overpowered 180 Texan soldiers in 1836.
What was the battle at the Alamo?
300
Mexican cowboys
What are vaqueros?
400
What became the "cash" crop in the south?
What is cotton?
400
States' Rights
What is believing that the state government should have more power than the federal government?
400
12 hours
How many hours a day the the wagon trains travel each day?
400
Independent Republic
What type of country did Texas become?
400
Sutter's Mill in 1848
When and where was gold discovered in California?
500
Eli Whitney
Who invented the cotton gin?
500
The Indian Removal Act ("Trail of Tears")
What is the law which foced Native Americans to move west actoss the Mississippi River?
500
50,000
How many people traveled on the Oregon Trail from 1843 and 1860?
500
9 years
How long was Texas an independent country?
500
The Missouri Compromise
What is that Missouri could join the union as a slave state and Maine could join the union as a free state? In the future all land north of Missouri's southern border would be free territory, and all the land south of the border would allow slavery.