Industrial Revolution
This event lead to the United States needing to learn to manufacture its own goods.
What is the War of 1812
Removed the seeds from Cotton, and lead to an increase in the demand for slave labor.
What is the Cotton Gin?
The idea that the United States should expand from East Coast to West Coast?
What is Manifest Destiney?
Little government interference in the economy.
Pushed for the end of slavery in the United States.
What is Abolitionism?
This group of people provided the labor to help support the Industrial Revolution.
Who are immigrants, young women.
This lead to the Northeast gaining access to new trade networks, and the Midwest opening for more settlement.
What is the Erie Canal?
Bought from Spain in 1819 via the Adams-Onis Treaty
What is Florida?
The movement of people from farms to cities.
What is Urbanization?
Led by women and pastors, wanted to ban the consumption of alcohol in the United States.
What is the Temperance Movement?
This area of the country lead in the growth of manufacturing and cities.
What is the North?
What are interchangeable parts?
Lead to the outbreak of the Mexican-American War.
What is the Annexation of Texas?
A man made river that connects one body of water to another.
What is a Canal?
She was a leader in the women's rights movement. Helped draft the Declaration of Sentiments.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
Decrease the amount of time needed to travel across the country.
What is the steam engine?
This region was added to the United States as a result of the Mexican American War. Also known as the Mexican Cession.
What is the Southwest? (California, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado)
When Great Britain left the colonies alone and self-government and free enterprise flourished.
This book helped lead to the growth of the Abolitionist movement.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
These two things helped lead/drive the Industrial Revolution.
What are Natural Resources and improved technology and inventions?
Helped keep people in the west in communication with the east. Used electrical signals to send a message.
What is the telegram?
Added to the United States as a result of a Treaty with Great Britain. It was split in half at the 49th parallel.
What is Oregon Country (Northwest)?
A larger farm that used slave labor to grow cash crops.
What is a plantation?
This reform movement had people find truth in nature. Also lead to the Hudson River School of Art.
What is Transcendentalism?