Westward Expansion
This route was used by settlers traveling to the Oregon Territory.
What is the Oregon Trail?
This religious movement encouraged people to improve society.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This law forced Native Americans to move west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
Devotion to one region over the whole country.
What is sectionalism?
This individual guided enslaved individuals to freedom as a "conductor" for the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This agreement with a European power in 1803 dramatically increased the nation’s size and opened vast lands for exploration and settlement.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This convention held in New York focused on women’s rights.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
This system gave government jobs to political supporters.
What is the spoils system?
Growth of cities due to immigration and population increases.
What is urbanicity?
This individual helped Lewis and Clark navigate and survive their journey.
Who is Sacagawea?
Lewis and Clark were sent by President ______ to explore new western lands.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
During the 1800s various reform movements sprung up including education reform, movement to end slavery, fight for women's rights, and ___________.
What is prison reform?
After being forced west, many Cherokee died along the __________.
What is the Trail of Tears?
The belief that native-born Americans are superior is called __________.
What is nativism?
This individual was a prominent figure in the fight for equality of the sexes.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
This war began over a border dispute between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande.
What is the Mexican-American War?
This document from Seneca Falls declared that “all men and women are created equal.”
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
After the Compromise of 1850 admitted California as a free state, tensions remained high due to the passage of this controversial law.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
The movement to end slavery is known as the __________ movement.
What is the abolitionist movement?
These two were admitted together in 1820 to maintain balance in Congress.
Who are Missouri and Maine?
This agreement ended the Mexican-American War and gave the U.S. vast western lands.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
During the 1800s, many Irish immigrants came to the United States due to the __________, while many German immigrants came seeking economic opportunity and farmland.
What is the Irish Potato Famine?
This crisis involved South Carolina challenging federal tariffs and threatening to leave the Union.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
This idea framed westward expansion not just as opportunity, but as a duty, helping explain why many Americans supported acquiring land despite conflicts it caused.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This individual fought to improve conditions in prisons and mental institutions.
Who is Dorothea Dix?