Reform Movements
This refers to the movement created to end slavery in the U.S.
What is abolition
This invention made cleaning cotton faster.
What is the cotton gin?
This law forced many Indigenous groups to move west.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This purchase doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Britain interfering with American trade helped cause this war.
What is the War of 1812?
This movement fought for women’s voting rights.
What is women’s suffrage?
This invention helped farmers harvest crops more efficiently.
What is the mechanical reaper?
The forced removal of the Cherokee people became known as this.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This belief said Americans were meant to expand across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This future president became famous after the Battle of New Orleans.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This formerly enslaved abolitionist became a famous speaker and writer.
Who is Fredrick Douglass?
This power source helped operate trains and factories.
What is the steam engine?
These wars occurred because the Seminole resisted removal from Florida.
What is the Seminole Wars?
This territory was divided peacefully between the United States and Great Britain.
What is the Oregon Territory?
This policy warned Europe to stay out of the Americas.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This woman helped enslaved people escape through the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This invention improved transportation across long distances.
What is the steam locomotive/train?
Westward expansion often caused Indigenous peoples to lose this.
What is their homes/land?
This war resulted in the United States gaining California and other western lands.
What is the Mexican-American War?
One major cause of the War of 1812 was the kidnapping of American soldier in the Navy.
What is impressment?
As the United States expanded westward, debates increased over this issue.
What is slavery?
Although the cotton gin improved efficiency, it also increased demand for this.
What is slavery?
After being forced from their homelands, many Indigenous groups were relocated to this designated region in present-day Oklahoma.
What is Indian Territory?
Thousands of people moved west after gold was discovered in this state.
What is current day California?
This war helped increase American nationalism.
What is the War of 1812?