Vocabulary
This term means a human-made waterway.
What is a canal?
He invented the telegraph.
Who is Samuel F.B. Morse?
Texas became a state in this year.
What is 1845?
This trail led settlers to the Pacific Northwest.
What is the Oregon Trail?
This method was used to find gold in rivers.
What is panning?
This is the belief that the U.S. should expand to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This invention allowed fast communication across long distances.
What is the telegraph?
This event allowed the U.S. to gain land after a war with Mexico.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This trail connected Missouri to New Mexico.
What is the Santa Fe Trail?
Gold sinks because it is __________ than water.
What is heavier?
This is unfair treatment of a group of people.
What is discrimination?
This invention helped farmers harvest grain faster.
What is the mechanical reaper?
This war was fought between the U.S. and Mexico.
What is the Mexican-American War?
This trail connected Santa Fe to Los Angeles.
What is the Old Spanish Trail?
These business people made money selling supplies to miners.
What are entrepreneurs?
This means producing many goods quickly using machines.
What is mass production?
He helped start factories in the U.S. using textile machines.
Who is Samuel Slater?
This caused conflict between Mexico and American settlers in Texas.
What is slavery?
This group moved west for religious freedom led by Brigham Young.
Who are the Mormons?
This group faced discrimination during the Gold Rush.
Who are Chinese and Mexican miners?
This is a group of wagons traveling together west.
What is a wagon train?
This type of machine helped begin the factory system in New England.
What are spinning machines?
This idea drove people to move west and gain land.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This was one reason settlers moved to Oregon.
What is free land (640 acres)?
Entrepreneurs made money because of this economic idea.
What is high demand and low supply?