Manifest Destiny
What is the name for the idea that people believed it was their destiny to move west and share their way of life?
Manifest Destiny
Name one way people traveled when moving west using wagons or animals.
Wagons and pack animals
What happened to land that belonged to Native Americans when settlers moved west?
Settlers and the U.S. government claimed those lands.
What word means "the production of items in large numbers for sale"?
Manufacturing
Why did some people think they should move west? (Give one reason.)
To find land, to spread their religion, to spread their way of government.
What kind of boat could travel only the way the river flowed?
Flatboats
What important animal declined and why was that a problem for many Native American groups?
The Buffalo declines, which harmed food clothing, and a way of life.
What simple machine helped remove seeds from cotton and made cotton easier to sell?
The cotton gin.
What is one way settlers thought moving west would help the United States.
It helped the U.S. grow bigger (more land), or it opened new places to farm and settle.
What invention added steam power to boats and helped travel faster on rivers?
The locomotive (steam engine for trains) and building of the transcontinental railroad.
What was the Indian Removal Act? (Give a short explanation.)
The Indian Removal Act forced Native Americans to leave their homelands and move west onto reservations.
What is a mill?
A mill is a building where goods are produced, often housing machines that make cloth.
Explain how the idea of Manifest Destiny could cause problems for people already living in the West.
It led to taking land from people already living there and caused fights or loss of homes.
Explain how the transcontinental railroad changed travel time between the coasts.
Travel time dropped from months to about a week to cross from one coast to the other.
How did moving Native Americans onto reservations change their lives? Give one example
They had to live on smaller lands (reservations), lost hunting grounds, and could not live as they did before.
Why did the North and South begin to disagree more over time? (Give the main issue.)
They disagreed over slavery — the North opposed it while the South depended on it.
Describe two effects that westward movement had on the land or people who already lived there.
Describe one social challenge families faced when living on the Great Plains.
Loneliness — farms were far apart, few neighbors or towns nearby
Describe two ways westward expansion harmed Native American communities.
Loss of land; loss of resources like buffalo; forced moves; changes to culture and ways of living.
Explain how the cotton gin led to more cotton being grown and how that affected people in the South.
The cotton gin made cleaning cotton faster so cotton became very profitable; more plantations grew cotton, exports increased, and demand for labor (including enslaved labor) grew.