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Native Americans
Moving West
New Land
Inventions
100
Provided free land to any settler who paid a filing fee and farmed it for 5 years
What is Homestead Act
100
Native Americans were forced to relocate to these
What are reservations
100
Idea that God wanted the United States to govern the land to the Pacific.
What is Manifest Destiny
100
Name given when the U.S. obtained the bottom portions of AZ and NM
What is Gadsden Purchase
100
Invented to keep cattle on the right property
What is barbed wire
200
This President was a "man of the frontier" and supported Indian Removal during the Westward Expansion time period.
What is Andrew Jackson
200
This animal was an essential link in the lives of Native Americans on the plains
What is the Buffalo
200
Name a reason why families chose to move West.
What is the availability of cheap land, new start, jobs
200
Why did Polk initiate war with Mexico?
What is to gain CA
200
This invention allowed farmers to break through the tough prairie sod
What is Steel Plow
300
This is the time period when numerous inventions were created and the population in the United States increased dramatically.
What is Industrial Revolution
300
IRA
What is Indian Removal Act.
300
Why did thousands of people flock to California in the mid 1800's?
What is the Gold Rush
300
What land did we get in the War with Mexico
What is CA,NM, AZ
300
A number of these were built in the United States Great Lakes region to help ships get to the Midwest.
What are canals
400
This is the territory that Lewis and Clark explored.
What is Louisiana territory
400
Name one reason why the Cherokee and other Indian nations were forced to move off their land.
What is Gold
400
Name one way people died on the Westward journey.
What is disease, starvation,accidents, storms
400
The US acquired FL from Spain in which treaty?
What is the Adams-Onis Treaty
400
Increased cotton production
What is the Cotton Gin
500
The Monroe Doctrine can me seen as moral opposition to: racism; slavery; colonialism; communism
What is Colonialism
500
This battle saw the defeat and annihilation of Custer's Army
What is Battle of Little Big Horn/ Custer's last stand
500
Missouri- Slave State Maine- Free State
What is Missouri Compromise
500
The Presidential Proclamation that declared the American Continents were no longer to be colonized by European Powers was:
What is Monroe Doctorine
500
Completed in 1862 and allowed more settlers to move west in faster time.
What is Transcontinental RR