Manifest Destiny/Mexican-American War
This battle officially started the Texas Revolution.
Battle of the Alamo
Violence arose in Kansas as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. This series of violence was known as _______________________.
Bleeding Kansas
Nativism looked to protect the rights and interests of which group of people?
Native-born Americans
Telegraph
This is the first name of the teacher who has two daughters who attend Newton Academy.
Allison
He is the name of America's 11th president. His entire campaign and presidential term was centered around Manifest Destiny.
James K. Polk
Explain what popular sovereignty is.
Settlers of a territory could vote whether or not to allow slavery.
This invention (created by Eli Whitney) separated cotton seeds and cotton fiber.
Cotton Gin
______________ McCormick invented the ____________________________________.
Cyrus, mechanical reaper
DAILY DOUBLE
There are two pairs of siblings from G6 and G8. Write the full names of one of the pairs.
Miso Yang, Dasol Yang
Yeojin Song, Brad Song
He led the Americans during the Battle of San Jacinto.
Sam Houston
One of the provisions of the Compromise of 1850 enforced a stricter ____________________________________, which forced Northern abolitionists to report slaves who escaped to the North from the South.
Fugitive Slave Law or Fugitive Slave Act
Lowell is a city located in which state?
Massachusetts
_______________ was the name of one of the first steam-powered locomotives. Who built it?
Tom Thumb, Peter Cooper
There is one G7 student who has a very similar name as one of the high school boys at Newton. Correctly write/spell his full name.
Aiden Ghim
John O'Sullivan personifies this word in his quote about Manifest Destiny in order to insinuate that westward expansion was permitted to Americans by God himself.
Providence
Explain how Cotton Whigs and Conscience Whigs differed from each other.
Cotton Whigs supported the expansion of slavery in America. Conscience Whigs opposed the expansion of slavery in America.
DAILY DOUBLE
Explain in detail how Nativists discriminated against Catholic people.
According to Nativists, Catholics were agents of the Pope who schemed to take over all political positions within America.
Explain two ways steam-powered boats were more efficient than traditional sailboats.
1. They could move forward against the current of a river.
2. They enabled a much faster transportation of goods across states.
Write the full name of the Newton teacher who can speak Russian fluently enough to the point where she can even translate between Russian and Korean.
Boeun Kim
DAILY DOUBLE
This law allowed settlers who were living on federal land (squatters) to purchase up to 160 acres at a minimum price of $1.25 per acre before the land was offered to the general public.
Pre-emption Act of 1841
DAILY DOUBLE
Who delivered the verdict of Dred Scott v. Sandford?
Roger B. Taney
Explain how interchangeable parts led to the factory system.
Answers may vary.
DAILY DOUBLE
The constitutional principle at stake in Gibbons v. Ogden is what?
Commerce Clause
Correctly spell the first names of all three seniors attending Newton.
Zimin, Ryan, Joanne