Market Revolution
This invention by Eli Whitney revolutionized cotton production and increased demand for slave labor in the South.
What is the cotton gin?
This 1830 law led to the forced relocation of thousands of Native Americans, most notably resulting in the Trail of Tears.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This 1845 event marked the annexation of a large territory, which angered Mexico and was a significant cause of the war.
What is the annexation of Texas?
This 1803 purchase from France doubled the size of the United States and extended its territory to the Rocky Mountains.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This term describes the belief that the United States was destined to expand across the North American continent, influencing westward expansion.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The rise of factories led to an increase in people moving to cities for jobs, a process known as this.
What is urbanization?
This 1851 policy forced Native Americans onto designated lands, restricting their movement and traditional way of life.
What are Indian reservations?
The war exacerbated tensions between the North and South, particularly regarding this issue, which became a major political debate after the war.
What is the expansion of slavery?
This treaty gave the United States land up to the Mississippi River post American Revolution.
What is the Treaty of Paris 1783?
This president, who served from 1845 to 1849, was a strong proponent of Manifest Destiny and oversaw the annexation of Texas.
Who is James K. Polk?
Women, particularly young girls, were hired in textile factories in this Massachusetts town, becoming one of the first industrial labor forces.
What is Lowell, Massachusetts?
Many Native American children were sent to these schools, where they were forced to abandon their language and culture in an attempt to assimilate them into white American society.
What are Indian boarding schools?
Disputes over the boundary of Texas, with the U.S. claiming this river as the border, led to military conflict with Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande?
This battle, fought in 1836, was a key victory for Texan independence and became a rallying cry for the Texas revolutionaries.
What is the Battle of the Alamo?
Once this was completed the time and cost to cross the country was drastically lowered, and it led to a mass migration of people moving west.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
How did the Market Revolution contribute to national economic growth?
This economic transformation connected distant markets, increased production efficiency, and fueled westward expansion
This U.S. policy aimed to assimilate Native Americans by dividing tribal lands into individual family plots, ultimately reducing Native land ownership.
What is the Dawes Act?
The war resulted in the U.S. gaining vast territories, including present-day California, Arizona, and New Mexico, through this treaty.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
The U.S. and Britain agreed to divide the Oregon Territory along this line of latitude, ending the dispute over the region.
What is the 49th parallel?
Which NFL football team is named after the California Gold Rush?
What is the San Francisco 49ers?
This major engineering project, completed in 1825, connected the Great Lakes to the Hudson River, boosting trade and New York City's economy.
What is the Erie Canal?
What were some long term effects of U.S. expansion on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota?
Alcoholism, higher suicide rates, higher school drop out rates, poor housing, obesity, no banks, no malls, no businesses on the reservation
How did the Mexican-American War affect Mexicans living in the territories ceded to the U.S., and what challenges did they face?
After the war, Mexicans living in the newly acquired territories were granted U.S. citizenship but faced discrimination and struggles to maintain their rights and land.
In 1819, the U.S. acquired Florida from Spain through this agreement
What is the Treaty of Adams-Onís?
This 1862 law encouraged settlement in the West by offering 160 acres of land to people who would farm it for five years.
What is the Homestead Act?