Land Acquisition
Westward Expansion (TEKS 6B)
Sectionalism & Economic Differences (TEKS 12C)
TECHNOLOGY, TRANSPORTATION & IMMIGRATION (TEKS 27A)
People
100
This 1803 purchase doubled the size of the United States.
Answer: What is the Louisiana Purchase?
100
This belief claimed the U.S. was destined to expand to the Pacific.
Answer: What is Manifest Destiny?
100
This region was inhabited by Native Americans after Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act.
Answer: What is the west?
100
Eli Whitney developed this machine that dramatically increased short-staple cotton production, creating a massive need for slave labor.
Answer: What is the cotton gin?
100
This president authorized the Louisiana Purchase despite constitutional reservations.
Answer: Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
This 1819 diplomatic agreement not only secured Florida but also established a defined western boundary between U.S. and Spanish territory.
Answer: What is the Adams-Onís Treaty?
200
This overland route became the primary pathway for settlers seeking farmland in the Pacific Northwest during the 1840s.
Hint: Some people drowned in a 2ft river or died of dysentery
Answer: What is the Oregon Trail?
200
This region developed canals, railroads, and factories due to limited farming land.
Answer: What is the North?
200
Samuel Morse introduced this coded communication system that revolutionized long-distance information exchange.
Answer: What is the telegraph? (Half points if you say Morse Code)
200
Name the inventor of this invention:
Hint (Former ILA Teacher)
Answer: Who is Robert Fulton?
300
This 1848 treaty ended war with Mexico and gave the U.S. land including California.
Answer: What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
300
This expedition mapped the Louisiana Territory between 1804–1806.
Answer: What is the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
300
This region depended on cash crops like cotton, tobacco, and rice.
Answer: What is the South?
300
This immigrant population migrated in significant numbers during the Gold Rush and later provided essential labor for western railroad construction.
Answer: Who are Chinese immigrants?
300
This inventor designed a steel plow that made farming the tough soil of the Great Plains far more efficient.
Answer: Who is John Deere?
400
This growing political crisis was intensified first by the Missouri Compromise’s attempt to maintain balance and later reignited when the Mexican Cession added vast new territories.
Answer: What is sectional conflict over the expansion of slavery?
400
This religious group migrated west to the Great Salt Lake region seeking freedom to practice their faith without persecution.
Answer: Who are the Mormons?
400
This region favored tariffs to protect American industries and boost domestic production of goods.
Answer: What is the North?
400
This man-made waterway drastically reduced shipping costs and strengthened Northern commercial dominance by linking interior farms to global markets.
Answer: What is the Erie Canal?
400
This president championed Manifest Destiny and oversaw both the annexation of Texas and the Mexican-American War.
Answer: Who is James K. Polk?
500
List all 8 land acquisitions. (200 points if you can name the two areas not tested)
Answer:
Thirteen Colonies
Treaty of Paris (1783 Territory)
Louisiana Purchase
Adams-Onís Treaty (Florida Cession)
Texas Annexation
Oregon Treaty
Mexican Cession
Gadsden Purchase
Maine (Webster-Ashburton)
Convention of 1818
500
This term describes the migrants who rushed to California after the 1848 gold discovery at Sutter’s Mill.
Answer: Who are the Forty-Niners?
500
Divide America into its three sections as accurately as possible.
Teacher discretion.
500
Name this invention:
Answer: What is the Bessemer Process?
500
This Boston merchant established an integrated textile factory system in Massachusetts that employed young women and became a model for early American industrialization.
Answer: Who is Francis Cabot Lowell?