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100
Territory that has fertile soil, mild climate, lots of forest; claimed by US and Great Britain/England. England got top half we got the bottom half.
Oregon
100
Dangerous but the PULL of cheap or free land was too great. More than 50,000 settlers headed on this trail
Oregon Trail
100
Type of economy in the North "we make it"
Manufacturing
100
Created interchangeable parts and cotton gin
Eli Whitney
100
Invention by Robert Fulton; improved transportation of goods and people over the water
Steamboat
100
The ill were taken from the prisons and treated in hospitals with trained medical professionals; separate facilities, no cruel punishment, appropriate sentences for minor crimes.
Mental Illness & Prison Reform
100
To become a state in the 1800s; had to be voted in by Congress and have a population of
60,000
100
Land acquisition labeled H
Oregon Country
200
Won it's independence from Mexico; became a Republic. Became a state in 1845 by threatening to ally with England
Texas
200
Trail made by this group of people that were seen as odd and seeking religious persection
Mormon Trail
200
Type of economy in the South "we grow it"
agriculture
200
Led the Mental Illness and Prison Reform
Dorothea Dix
200
Artificial channel dug, then filled with water, which allowed boats to cross a stretch of land; connected rivers.
Canals
200
Led by women consume less or abstain from alcohol/alcoholism
Temperance Movement
200
Group of people attracted by "mountains of gold"; instrumental in the building of railroads.
Chinese
200
Land Acquisition labeled A
Original 13 colonies
300
War began with Mexico on where the Texas border ended. "Fought and Bought" this territory for $15 million in the Mexican War
Mexican Cession
300
Time in US History where industry, factories, machines took over specifically in the North
Industrial Revolution
300
Economic system in which slaves provide the necessary labor for planting and harvesting cash crops
Plantation system
300
Father of American Education
Horace Mann
300
Took the idea of a steam engine from steam boats for this invention over land
Railroad
300
Improve education of children. Goal every child receive a free, public education.
Education Reform
300
East coast saw an influx of this group of people due to a crop disease (Potato Famine); they were starving and looking for economic opportunities
Irish
300
Land acquisition labeled F
Mexican Cession
400
Purchase this strip of land for $10 million to complete a railroad
Gadsden Purchase
400
Pull of factory jobs that required no skill enticed a TON of people to move here in the 1850s
North
400
Laws meant to keep slaves from running away or rebelling
Slave Codes
400
Escaped slave who wrote the North Star; spoke of the evils of slavery
Frederick Douglas
400
Could instantly communicate with someone very far away; invented by Samuel Morse
Telegraph
400
Religious movement that led to reform movements
Second Great Awakening
400
Uncle Tom's Cabin, some credit as "fuel" to the Civil War, exposed the harsh reality of slavery was written by
Harriet Beecher Stowe
400
Land acquisition labeled G
Gadsden Purchase
500
Over 15,000 Mormons running from religious persecution settled here
Utah
500
The cotton gin increased the demand for cotton, the demand for slaves increased as well creating
Cotton Kingdom
500
people who want to abolish slavery
Abolitionists
500
Author of the Liberator
William Lloyd Garrison
500
Machine that removed seeds from cotton
cotton gin
500
First organized convention (rally) discussing women's rights. Held in Seneca Falls, NY
Seneca Fall Convention
500
Acquired this land from France in 1803
Louisiana Purchase
500
Land Acquisition labeled C
Louisiana Purchase
600
Large rush (over 80,000 people) in rushed here in hopes of striking it rich. People as far as China, Australia and South America flooded here in 1849
California Gold Rush
600
Small town (rural) became big cities almost overnight
Urbanization
600
Born in USA, white Americans who were dead against immigrants in the US; could make life miserable for immigrants.
Nativists
600
Wrote the Declaration of Sentiments. 1st organized convention was held in her hometown
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
600
parts that are identical, so they can easily be replaced
Interchangeable Parts
600
These artist romanticized landscapes; art was about discovery, exploration and settlement
Hudson River School Artist
600
This formally ended the Mexican War where we won "huge piece of land"
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
600
Land Acquisition labeled D
Florida
700
Acquired this land from Spain
Florida
700
Belief that many Americans had that the US should span all the way across the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean
Manifest Destiny
700
Economic system in which businesses operate for profit with minimal government regulation
Free Enterprise
700
Abolitionist, part of temperance movement and women's rights. Played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement
Susan B. Anthony
700
Invented steel plow; got the job done quicker
John Deere
700
Urged people to find themselves. Think for yourself, don't let government tell you what you can and can't do. Be one with nature
Transcendentalism
700
Transcendalist who wrote Resistance to Civil Government (civil disobedience)
Henry David Thoreau
700
What 2 letters make up the original US
A & B