Immigration
This country had many immigrants come to the U.S. due to a potato famine.
What is Ireland?
Before improvements, travel in the U.S. was described as this.
What is slow?
This is the belief that the U.S. should expand across North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This 1803 purchase doubled the size of the United States
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This trail was used by Mormons seeking religious freedom.
What is the Mormon Trail?
These are reasons people leave their home country (famine, war, poverty).
What are push factors?
This canal connected Midwest farms to East Coast ports.
What is the Erie Canal?
One motivation for expansion was land for this activity.
What is farming?
This state was annexed by the U.S. in 1845.
What is Texas?
These trails helped settlers do this.
What is move west?
These are reasons people come to a new country (jobs, land, opportunity).
What are pull factors?
The Erie Canal made trade faster and this.
What is cheaper?
This painting shows Americans moving west and Native Americans being pushed out.
What is “American Progress”?
This land was gained after the U.S.-Mexican War.
What is the Mexican Cession?
This mountain range was a major barrier to westward travel.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
This group, along with the Irish, made up a large portion of immigrants in the 1840s–50s.
Who are Germans?
One major problem before the Erie Canal was that these did not connect.
What are rivers?
Many Americans believed expansion was this (unstoppable/fated).
What is inevitable (or destiny)?
This 1819 treaty gave Florida to the United States.
What is the Adams-Onís Treaty?
This 1848 event caused a population boom in California.
What is the Gold Rush?
This event caused a major increase in Irish immigration.
What is the potato famine?
This year the Erie Canal was completed.
What is 1825?
This group was negatively impacted by westward expansion.
Who are Native Americans?
This 1853 purchase was made for a railroad route
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
Gold was first discovered at this location in California.
What is Sutter’s Mill?