Land Acquisitions
New Tech
Persons of Interest
Think like a Historian
Mixed Bag
!!Final Jeopardy!!
100
$15 million, 828,000 sq mile land acquisition completed between Thomas Jefferson and France in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
100
Building that houses machines to turn cotton in to cloth used for things like clothes, linens and table cloth.
What is a textile factory
100
Immigrant group that settled mostly on the western coast of the United States and are credited with supporting the building of San Francisco and the railroad system.
Who are the Chinese?
100
Historical Thinking skill that determined reliability of a source by analyzing information about the creator.
What is sourcing?
100
The phrase used to describe the belief that it was predetermined that the United States would expand to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
200
Southern territory secured by then general Andrew Jackson by eliminating opposition by Seminole Indians who were native to the area.
What is Florida?
200
Advantageous invention that allowed messages to be sent over land.
What is the telegraph?
200
Native American group that inhabited the modern day state of Florida and were decimated by military campaign led by future president Andrew Jackson
Who are the Seminoles
200
Historical thinking skill that determines reliability of a source by comparing details of a source with other sources to find what they agree upon.
What is corroboration?
200
Territory where Louis and Clark ended their famous journey.
What is Oregon?
300
Area secured by the Treaty of Paris between The United States and Great Britain.
What are the Original 13 States?
300
A large building or set of building housing many machines that work together to create a finished product that made manufacturing more efficient in the 19th century.
What is a factory system?
300
Native tribe that was removed from modern day Georgia and forced to move 1000 miles west on The Trail of Tears. Also the name of a popular SUV.
Who are the Cherokee?
300
Historical thinking skill that determines reliability of a source by analyzing the claims and evidence provided within the source.
What is close reading?
300
Ideology that favored American born citizens and led to the mistreatment of immigrant populations in the United Stated during the 19th century
What is nativism?
300
Also known as "Custer's Last Stand" this battle saw Chief Sitting Bull defeat federal troops.
What is
The Battle of Little Bighorn
400
Territory the earned its independence and then asked to join the United States as a state in 1845
What is Texas
400
Patented machine that allowed for the processing of short-staple cotton and caused slavery in the US to expand.
What is the cotton gin?
400
Immigrant group that fled Europe in the mid 1800s in the midst of a famine related to diseased potatoes.
Who are the Irish?
400
Analysis of historical events provided by a historian after researching the causes, details and consequences of a historical event.
What is historical interpretation?
400
Something about a country that might make someone want to move there if they decide to leave their home.
500
The document signed between the United States and Mexico that ended their war and resulted in the US acquiring what is now New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, California and Nevada.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
500
A technological advancement that allowed individuals to repair their own tools without having to purchase an entirely new version of their product.
What are interchangeable parts?
500
Immigration station in the San Francisco Bay that processed immigrants from China and other parts of the Pacific Rim.
What is Angel Island?
500
Historical thinking skill that analyzes the time period that a source is created to better understand the authors perspective and bias.
What is contextualization?
500
The family who attempted to travel west only to get stuck in a snow storm that led to cannibalism among the group to survive.
Who are the Donners?