Who Am I?
This President purchased the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The 19th-century belief that the United States was destined to expand from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This water route connecting the Hudson River to Lake Erie greatly lowered shipping costs and made New York City the nation's busiest port.
What is the Erie Canal?
This 1811 speech called white settlers "poisonous serpents" who were "feeble and harmless" when cold but deadly when warmed.
What is Tecumseh's speech?
This invention by Eli Whitney in 1793 made cleaning cotton faster and increased the demand for enslaved labor in the South.
What is the cotton gin?
This President signed the Indian Removal Act and forced Native Americans west.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
The right to vote – something women demanded at the Seneca Falls Convention.
What is suffrage?
This woman, whose name means "bird woman" in Hidatsa, served as a translator and helped Lewis and Clark avoid conflict with Native tribes.
Who is Sacagawea?
This religious revival movement of the early 1800s inspired Americans to reform society, including the temperance and abolition movements.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This communication invention, first used in 1844, allowed messages to be sent instantly over long distances using wires and codes.
What is the telegraph?
This Shawnee leader tried to unite Native American tribes against white settlers.
Who is Tecumseh?
Conditions that cause people to leave their homeland (e.g., famine, poverty, war).
What are push factors?
In his journal, Lewis estimated seeing 3,000 of these animals "in every direction feeding on the hills and plains."
What are buffalo (or bison)?
The movement to end slavery, inspired in part by the Second Great Awakening and led by figures like William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass.
What is abolition?
This type of transportation, which expanded rapidly in the 1850s, helped connect Northern factories to Western markets.
What are railroads?
This leader of the women's rights movement wrote the Declaration of Sentiments at Seneca Falls in 1848.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
The forced relocation of Cherokee Native Americans from the southeastern U.S. to Indian Territory (1838–1839).
What is the Trail of Tears?
This treaty ended the Mexican-American War and gave the U.S. California, Nevada, Utah, and other western territories.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
In his 1830 message to Congress, supporting this Act, President Jackson claimed that removing Native Americans would help them become this kind of community.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This labor system, also called "wage labor," replaced enslaved labor in the North and relied on workers who were paid for their work.
What is free labor?
This President started the Mexican-American War to gain California and the Southwest.
Who is James K. Polk?
The 1862 law that gave 160 acres of free land to anyone willing to live on and farm it for five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
One major goal of the Louisiana Purchase was to give the United States full control of this river.
What is the Mississippi River?
This event in Irish history, also known as An Gorta Mór, caused over 1 million people to emigrate to the United States.
What is the Irish Potato Famine?
The governor of New York who championed the construction of the Erie Canal against federal opposition.
Who was Dewitt Clinton?