Vocabulary
Immigration
Inventions
Westward Expansion
Where is this?
100

the development of industries in a country or region on a wide scale

What is industrialization?

100

These factors cause people to leave their country.

What are Push Factors?

100

This invention improved product efficiency by cleaning cotton faster.

What is the Cotton Gin.

100

The belief that America had the God-given right to expand westward from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean

What is Manifest Destiny?

100

1845

What is Texas?

200

the formal giving up of rights, property, or territory by a state

What is cession?

200

This group of immigrants left their country due to a Potato Famine.

Who are the Irish or Ireland?

200

This invention allowed people to move their goods up and down a river quickly. Invented by Robert Fulton in 1807. 

What is the steamboat.

200

This purchase doubled the size of the United States

What is the Louisiana Purchase of 1803?

200

This area was purchased from France for 15 million dollars. 

What is Louisana?

300

This is when a territory is added to another State.

What is annexation.

300

This group of immigrants gave us the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus and the weekends. 

Who are the Germans?

or Germany.

300

I am the American Inventor that invented the cotton gin

Who is Eli Whitney?

300

This area was ceded by Spain in 1819.

What is Florida?

300

This area was ceceded by Mexico

What is the Mexico Cession?

400

a journey or voyage undertaken by a group of people with a particular purpose, especially that of exploration, scientific research, or war

What is an expedition?

400

This group moved to the West Coast because of the California Gold Rush.

Who are the Chinese?
400

This invention was completed in 1869. It was built by thousands of Chinese and Irish immigrants. 

What is the Transcontinental Railroad .

400

This area was annexed in 1845.

What is Texas annexation.

400

Cession

What is Florida Cession?

500

This term is when the population shift from rural to urban areas. 

Urbanization

500

This group helped build America's infrastructure; including the Brooklyn Bridge.

Who are the Irish or Ireland?

500

Developed in 1837 by Samuel Morse , this invention improved long-distance communication. It worked by sending signals over a wire between telegraph stations.

 What is the telegraph?

500

These guys went on an expedition to make maps, notes, and pictures of the geography, Native American languages, plants and animals. 

 

Who are Lewis and Clark.

500

This area was split with Great Britain. Great Britain took the Northen Part and America took the Southern Part

What is the Oregon Territory?