West
Conflicts
Government
Cultural Events
People
100

Missionaries going west to convert Native Americans to Christianity, and lumberjacks and miners going west to take advantage of natural resources are both examples of: 

Manifest Destiny
100

The American colonists were not represented in Parliament and could not vote, which is why they were angry about Parliament voting to create new _____ in the colonies.

Taxes

100

Missouri would be admitted as a slave state, while Maine would be admitted as a free state.

Missouri Compromise

100

It was the birth of modern industry and all its changes.

Industrial Revolution

100

Group who were discriminated against and worked for low wages in cities.

Irish Immigrants

200

This western trail was used by the forty-niners.

California

200

This battle of the American Revolution is considered the turning point in the war since it convinced France to help the American colonists.

Saratoga

200

The United States' second system of government that replaced the Articles of Confederation. It had a system of checks and balances made sure no one branch got too powerful.

The Constitution

200

This invention increased the demand for enslaved workers.

Cotton Gin

200

Former enslaved person who helped dozens of enslaved people escape to the North. Also spied on the Confederacy during the Civil War.

Harriet Tubman

300

It was a private stage coach line that carried mail.

Butterfield Trail

300

Which battle of the American Revolution is the final one, in which British General Cornwallis surrendered to American and French forces?

Yorktown

300

The United States' first plan of government. It created a weak national government that had the power to coin money, create an army, and each state had one vote.

Articles of Confederation

300

The four stages of Texas.

Spanish, Mexican, Independent, U.S. State

300

Education reformer who wrote textbooks called McGuffey Readers, with different reading levels. They taught reading and moral values.

William McGuffey

400

It cost $15 million and almost doubled the size of the United States.

The Louisiana Purchase

400

Texas became an independent nation called the Republic of Texas at the end of this war.

The Texas Revolution.

400

In 1791 Congress passed a very unpopular tax on liquor, sugar, snuff, and carriages. This led to an uprising in which farmers attacked tax collectors. Washington needed to make it clear that armed rebellion against the national government would not be tolerated. The farmers fled when they saw him arrive with troops.

Whiskey Rebellion

400

Stated that “all men and women are created equal.” Created at the Seneca Falls Convention.

Declaration of Sentiments

400

Reformer who wanted to improve prisons. She noticed that mentally ill people were jailed alongside violent criminals.

Dorothea Dix

500

This religion did American settlers have to convert to in order to move to Texas.

Roman Catholic

500

The United States paid the Mexican government $15 million, and Mexico recognized Texas as part of the United States at the end of which war?

The Mexican-American War

500

A reason Texans supported the annexation of Texas.

Many Texans always considered themselves Americans, not Mexicans.

The Texas economy would be improved.

The U.S. government would protect them from Mexico.

500

This event caused revivals, meetings designed to reawaken religious feelings, to rise. Women were welcome to pray and even preach publicly.

Second Great Awakening

500

Education reformer who promoted mandatory school attendance and locally funded schools.

Horace Mann