Inventions
Factors that influenced Westward Expansion
Land Acquired
Reform Movements
Miscellaneous
200
What invention helped people in different parts of the country communicate with one another?
The telegraph.
200
What was happening in Eastern cities that made some people want to move west?
They were getting too crowded.
200
Which country sold the U.S. the land of the Louisiana Purchase?
France
200
Which abolitionist escaped slavery and helped many other people escape through the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
200
Who was the Shoshone woman who assisted the Lewis and Clark expedition as they explored the Louisiana Territory?
Sacagawea
400
What was one negative effect of the cotton gin?
It increased the desire for slave labor
400
Where was the Gold Rush that caused many to move westward?
California
400
How did the U.S. gain the territory shown here?
We received it from Mexico at the end of the Mexican-American War.
400
Which abolitionist escaped slavery, wrote his autobiography, and eventually published the newspaper The North Star?
Frederick Douglass
400
What do you call the event when thousands of Cherokees and members of other tribes were forcibly moved from their lands east of the Mississippi to current-day Oklahoma.
The Trail of Tears
600
What did the Steamboat do that encouraged Westward Expansion?
Brought products from southern farms to northern factories and to the West.
600
Why would a person interested in farming or homesteading want to move their family to the west?
There was a lot of cheap, fertile land.
600
Which state was an independent country before it joined the U.S. in the 1840s?
100 pt. bonus if you can name the famous battle in that state in which everyone was killed.
Texas
The Alamo
600
Name one of the first three states to give women the right to vote.
(100 pt bonus if you can name the other two)
Wyoming
Colorado
Idaho
600
What law ("Act") allowed the federal government to negotiate treaties with eastern native tribes, exchanging their lands for land in the West.
The Indian Removal Act
800
Which invention increased the productivity of the American grain farmer?
The mechanical reaper
800
Name two ways people could make money if they settled in the west.
Logging, Farming, fur trading, selling goods to other settlers, and finding gold.
800
What is the name of the Land Acquisition labeled "A"?
200 point bonus if you can say which country the US acquired it from.
The Oregon Territory
Great Britain
(England)
800
Which abolitionist founded the American Anti-Slavery Society and published the newspaper The Liberator?
William Lloyd Garrison
800
Name two causes of the War of 1812.
The British kidnapped American sailors and made them serve on British ships.
The British attacked the U.S.S. Chesapeake
British violated the Treaty of Paris by keeping their forts in the Northwest Territory
1000
How did the steam locomotive encourage westward expansion?
It allowed people to travel more quickly and safely over land.
1000
What is the idea that it was America's right and purpose to spread across the entire continent.
Manifest Destiny
1000
What is the name of the Land Acquisition labeled "E"?
1000
What were two specific concerns women felt they were denied in the 19th century?
100 point bonus if you can name the first Women's Rights convention.
(answers will vary)
Women's right to:
-vote; have equal access to education; have equal opportunities in business; have rights inside of marriage; have rights to their own property, etc.
1000
What were the two parts of the Monroe Doctrine?
America would stay out of conflicts between countries in Europe.
If European countries attacked or tried to colonize any country in North or South America, the US would consider it an attack against us.