New Territories
Migration Motivation
Native American Impact
Technological Change
100
Spain gave this territory to the United States through a treaty.
What is Florida?
100
Belief in the idea that expansion and claiming territory was America's God-given right.
What is Manifest Destiny?
100
The discovery of______________on American Indian land in the southern United States eventually led to the removal of the Cherokee Indians in Georgia.
What is gold?
100
This invention increased the production of cotton and thus increased the need for slave labor to cultivate and pick the cotton.
What is the cotton gin?
200
This territory was divided by the United States and Great Britain.
What is the Oregon Territory?
200
Steamboats and steam locomotives were invented during the 1800s and provided cheaper and faster modes of this.
What is transportation?
200
"____________________”—As part of the American Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation and other tribes were forced to give up their lands east of the Mississippi River and relocate west.
What is the "Trail of Tears?"
200
These feats of engineering provided shorter transportation routes for ships to move goods.
What are canals?
300
This state was added to the United States after it became an independent republic
What is Texas?
300
Making the move out west on the Oregon and Sante Fe Trails was easier due to this.
What is the knowledge of the trails?
300
This Act authorized the federal government to negotiate treaties with eastern tribes exchanging their lands for land in the West.
What is The American Indian Removal Act?
300
Inventor of the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
400
Territories Labeled A, B, C, D, E, and F
The U.S. acquired this land when Jefferson bought land from France, which doubled the size of the United States.
What is the United States before 1803, the Louisiana Territory, the annexation of Texas, Mexican cession, and Oregon Territory?
400
Growth of this in the eastern states caused it to be crowded and made people want to move west.
What is population or the number of people?
400
Two reasons the Trail of Tears was a terrible event.
What are any two of the following: many American Indians died as they were relocated, all of their land was taken. People starved, weather conditions were harsh.
400
Providing a faster method of river transportation, this invention connected Southern plantations and farms to Northern industries.
What is the steamboat?
500
The Mexican-American War resulted in Mexico ceding this territory and future state to the U.S.
What is California?
500
This natural resource was found in California resulting in migration out west.
What is Gold?
500
Native Americans were relocated to this present day state.
What is Oklahoma?
500
This method of transportation connected the east to the west.
What is the steam locomotive?