vocabulary
an artificial waterway built for boat travel
What is a canal?
Made the syllabary for the Cherokee people, which enabled them to write and read.
Who is Sequoyah?
a system of government where power belongs to the people
What is democracy?
Not wanting European nations to control countries in the American continent (give date & title)
What was the Monroe Doctrine in 1823?
An area under the control of a government
What is territory?
Name the feature in UT.
What is the Great Salt Lake?
a machine invented by Eli Whitney that quickly separates sticky seeds from raw cotton fibers
What is the cotton gin?
He fought hard for abolition but was told again and again that he wasn't allowed to talk about it.
Who was John Quincy Adams?
a large farm or estate dedicated to growing a single cash crop
What is a plantation?
When President Jackson broke the law for our nation's benefit. It killed thousands of people.
What is the Trail of Tears in 1830?
An economic system where prices, production, and distribution of goods are determined by the forces of supply and demand
What is market economy?
Name the feature in Wyoming.
What is The Devil's Tower?
The supreme power & authority of a state to govern itself
What is sovereignty?
Describe the paintings we saw and what was beautiful about them.
What is...
American Indian paintings that showed their bravery and skill.
Landscapes that showed the beauty of the newly acquired land.
the official act of ending slavery by law
What is abolition?
Travel by water that made trade & commerce less expensive. It was 4' deep and 40' wide.
What is the Erie Canal in 1825?
An agricultural plant grown to sell for money
What is cash crop?
Name the feature that spreads across half of Wyoming and Colorado.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
the act of being moved from a place
What is removal?
Who was Frederick Douglass?
the edge of a settled area where wild or unexplored land begins
What is frontier?
People travel by choice for economic prosperity and free land.
What was westward expansion of 1841?
the civil right to vote in public political elections
What is suffrage?
Name the Rocky Mountain states and their capitals.
What is Salt Lake City, Utah; Denver, Colorado; Cheyenne, Wyoming; Helena, Montana; and Boise, Idaho?
What is a treaty?
These things caused Americans to move west,
and the expansion cost. (list 2 of each)
What is Manifest Destiny, the desire for free land, easier transportation, gold, and better opportunities?
What did it cost the soul of America when it broke laws and didn't respect the dignity of American Indians and Enslaved persons, and the immigrants who died making the canal for cheap?
19th century belief that the U.S. was divinely ordained to expand its borders across the North American continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
A machine that made the South demand more labor.
What is the cotton gin of 1830?
The formal act of a government taking over land that was not part of its area before
What is annexation?
Name the feature that spreads from Colorado to Utah.
What is the Colorado River?