Innovations & Technology
This invention made long-distance communication faster.
What is the telegraph?
President who created the Monroe Doctrine.
Who is James Monroe?
Law that forced Native Americans to move west.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
Belief that U.S. expansion was meant to happen.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Land acquired after the Mexican-American War.
What is the Mexican Cession?
People who traveled west for gold.
Who are the Forty-Niners?
This machine greatly increased cotton production.
What is the cotton gin?
President most associated with Indian Removal.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
The forced journey of the Cherokee people.
What is the Trail of Tears?
Painting that symbolizes westward expansion.
What is American Progress?
Territory jointly settled with Great Britain.
What is the Oregon Territory?
Long-distance trade route.
What is the Santa Fe Trail?
These man-made waterways lowered transportation costs.
What are canals?
This system rewarded political supporters with government jobs.
What is the Spoils System?
To adopt the dominant culture.
What does assimilate mean?
President during most western expansion.
Who is James K. Polk?
Land purchased to build a railroad route.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
Trail used by families heading to the Pacific Northwest.
What is the Oregon Trail?
The Industrial Revolution replaced handmade goods with this.
What is factory production?
The election that caused controversy and led to Jackson's rise.
What is the Election of 1824?
River Native Americans were forced to cross.
What is the Mississippi River?
Country the U.S. fought to gain western land.
What is Mexico?
Independent republic that later joined the U.S.
What is Texas?
Mexican landowners in the Southwest.
Who are Rancheros?
This canal connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Erie Canal?
Crisis where states challenged federal authority.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
Group most negatively impacted by westward expansion.
Who are Native Americans?
Treaty that ended the Mexican-American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Act of adding land to a country.
What does annex mean?
Two push or pull factors for moving west.
What are land, gold, opportunity, religious freedom, poverty?