Territorial Acquisitions
This territory was bought from France in 1803
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Pioneers used this trail to move West after hearing about cheap land and new opportunities.
What is the Oregon Trail?
a man-made waterway that connects two bodies of water. Canals are used for shipping, travel, and irrigation.
What is a Canal?
This method of making identical parts for products led to Mass Production.
What are interchangeable parts?
Describe the working conditions in factories in the industrial revolution.
Dirty, polluted, very dangerous, long working hours (often 12 - 15 hour days, 6 days a week), lots of child laborers (average age to start work was 10), no safety regulations
Worries about starting a war with Mexico and disrupting the balance of free and slave states in the union.
This group of immigrants came to the United States after hearing rumors of "Gold Mountain" aka the gold rush.
What are Chinese immigrants?
the process of migration to large, densely populated areas, generally cities
What is Urbanization?
Created by Eli Whitney to quickly remove seeds from Cotton and resulted in an increased need for slave labor.
What is the Cotton Gin?
These inventions led to a decreased need for farm labor (leading people to move to cities for jobs).
The US had to negotiate with this country to acquire the Oregon Territory.
What is Great Britian?
This religious group fled to Utah to escape religious persecution.
What are the Mormons?
he 19th-century belief that the United States had a divine mission to expand westward across North America Atlantic ocean to pacific ocean
What is Manifest Destiny?
This is our very first method of rapid communication over long distances (created for the railroads)
What is the Telegraph?
Name an effect of Urbanization
Overcrowding in cities, pollution, increase in crime, increase in immigration, high unemployment, increase in disease in cities
This Territory was acquired from Mexico with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo at the end of the Mexican American War.
What is Mexican Cession?
This territory of land was bought to complete the Transcontinental railroad.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
the process of economic development based on factory production
What is Industrialization?
This was invented by Robert Fulton and allowed boats to move faster and more efficiently than ever.
What are steamboats?
Many people in urban areas (cities) turned to this to cope with the stress of their everyday lives (leading to a rise in crime)
What is alcohol?
What is the Adams-Onis Treaty?
What are miners who moved West for the California Gold Rush.
market system (economy) operating free from government intervention
this man moved from Britain to the US after illegally memorizing the design of a machine that spun cotton thread and was known as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution"
Who is Samuel Slater?
What are German and Irish Immigrants.