Growing the U.S.
Purchased for $15 million from France, Jefferson secured this land and nearly doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This people group made their way to California to find gold and economic growth, but faced persecution by Americans. This group also helped build the Continental Railroad.
Who are the Chinese?
Treaty in which Mexico ceded, or gave up land to the United States.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Fought to better care for the mentally ill, and because of her efforts, 32 mental health hospitals were opened.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
This movement called for the prohibition of the sale and consumption of alcohol.
What is the Temperance Movement?
2 states that were previously owned by Spain
What is Florida and California?
A potato blight in their home country left them jobless and hungry. This people group was the primary source of work in factories and building the transcontinental railroad.
Who are the Irish?
The issue that became a point of conflict between Texas and Mexico, and a reason the United States did not want to annex Texas.
What is the issue of slavery?
The key figures who led the charge for Women's Rights and suffrage, and attended the Seneca Falls Convention, in which equal rights between men and women were discussed.
Who is Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony?
Fought for the abolition of slavery, and led the Underground Railroad- bringing slaves to freedom
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This led to faster transportation and opened new markets for businesses.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Their goal was to find gold on the Golden Coast of California, consequently increasing the population.
Who are the Forty-Niners?
President in favor of annexation of Texas. Believed in fulfilling manifest destiny.
Who is James K. Polk?
This person is known for establishing the belief of Transcendentalism, and goodness of humans and unity with nature.
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
An African American abolitionist who escaped the grip of slavery, and promoted abolition of slavery throughout the United States.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
The land gained from declaring independence from Great Britain in 1776.
What are the Original 13 colonies?
Religious group that made their way out West to the Great Basin to escape religious persecution, and established a center for worldwide religion.
Who are the Mormons?
The United States defending their land from Mexican aggression led to this conflict.
What is the Mexican-American War?
Education reformer, believed the U.S. needed better public schools, and thought of public school as "the great equalizer"
Who is Horace Mann?
Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin", which in effect led to more support of the abolitionist movement.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Land once shared between the United States and Great Britain until 1846.
What is Oregon Territory?
The first group to call for an end to slavery, as it went against their religious beliefs
Who are the Quakers?
Rules Mexico had for Mexican citizenship in Texas.
What is 1. Loyalty to Mexico 2. Become Catholic 3. No slavery
This person is known for his role in the Second Great Awakening, and the revivalist movement.
Who is Charles Finney?
What is the Hudson River School artists?