Key Terms
This means, "to make a firm decision." (p. 314)
What is "resolved"?
This is the invention that increased cotton production times fifty!
What is the cotton gin?
This is the region, or group of people, in the USA that owned slaves.
What is the south? Who are southerners?
This is the name of the trail that many white settlers followed to Oregon Territory; we watched a video of wagon train traveling on it and played a retro video game about it.
What is the Oregon Trail?
This is the measure of what's made with a given amount of time and effort.
What is productivity?
This is an area of land set aside for Native Americans.
What is a reservation?
This is how much more the world's supply of gold increased because of the California Gold Rush.
What is doubling / times 2?
Because there was so much cotton needed, this group of people increased significantly in the USA in order to do the work.
Who are slaves?
This is the state that people rushed to in search of gold.
What is California?
This is the name for the people that rushed to California in search of gold.
Who are the '49ers?
This word means "to live." (p. 315)
What is reside?
This is the crop that made the Southern USA tons of money, accounting for almost 60% of exports by 1860.
What is cotton?
This was the tribe of Native Americans that was forced to march on the Trail of Tears.
Who are the Cherokee?
This was when the American army forced tens of thousands of Cherokee had to march to Indian Territory, with thousands dying along the way.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This means "to take away from," like how the American government took land away from the Cherokee and other Natives.
What is dispossess?
This means to move to another place. (p. 311)
What is relocate?
This famous clothing brand started when 49'ers needed tough pants to work in and are famous for their jeans.
What are Levis?
This was the president that signed the Indian Removal Act, which would lead to the Trail of Tears. (p. 311-312)
Who is Andrew Jackson?
What is the judicial branch / supreme court?
This is the name of a town that quickly grew in population.
What is a boomtown?
This is the idea that the USA should span the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This is the trade of slaves within the United States only, not internationally (also a yellow key-term)
What is the domestic slave trade?
It was not the gold miners / 49'ers that struck it rich, but instead this group that sold the supplies they needed, at a big mark up in price.
Who are merchants / shopkeepers?
This is the name of the law that President Jackson signed in 1830 that forcibly relocated the Cherokee. (p. 311)
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This is a fancy word for "farming."
What is agriculture?