Vocab
something added to a larger thing, like territory.
What is Annexation?
The river that the US claimed separated the US and Mexico in 1845.
What is the Rio Grande?
Workers, such as women, worked in these large buildings that used machines to make goods, like textiles.
What is a factory?
Cotton farmers used this form of labor in which black Africans performed the work.
What is slavery?
The European conquistadores from this country claimed parts of the "New World," such as Texas and Mexico.
What is Spain?
The process where a country or region shifts from an economy based on farming and handmade goods to one focused on large-scale machine-made goods made in factories using new technologies.
What is Industrialization?
Mexico said this river separated the US and Mexico in 1845.
What is the Nueces River?
These are a type of worker who works to earn money.
What is a wage-worker?
This was the main cash crop grown in the South in the 1800s.
What is cotton?
The Spanish used this system to claim land in the New World.
What is the Mission System?
The practice of growing crops and raising livestock; farming for food and other products, like cotton.
What is Agriculture?
This ended the US-Mexican War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
The man-made river that connected the Midwest to New York.
What is the Eire Canal?
This was the machine used to separate the seeds from the fiber of the "King" crop of the South.
What is the cotton gin?
The "Old Three Hundred" and later other Anglo settlers were brought to Texas by these land agents, such as Stephen F. Austin.
Who were empresarios?
Required all parts of the US to return escaped slaves to their owners in the South.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law (of 1850)?
All parts gained by the US after the US-Mexican War.
What is Mexican Cession?
Oil from this marine mammal was used to power things such as lamps in the 1800s.
What is a whale?
She was the best-known conductor of the Under Ground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
I was the General of the Texas Army during the war for independence, then I was elected the 1st president of Texas.
Who is Sam Houston?
The division of the country into regions with conflicting political, economic, and ideological interests. Such as the North, the South, and the West.
What is Sectionalism?
The president of the US during the US-Mexican War.
Who is James K. Polk?
The book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe,
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
He was a slave but managed to escape and become a well-known speaker for equal rights for blacks in America.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
I was elected the 2nd president of Texas and known as the "Father of Texas Education."
Who is Mirabeau B. Lamar?