Women's Suffrage
This event in 1848 began the women’s suffrage movement.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
This belief said the United States was meant to stretch from coast to coast.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This conflict began because many American settlers in Texas would not follow Mexican laws.
What is the Texas Revolution?
Settlers on this trail faced sickness, accidents, and harsh conditions.
What is the Oregon Trail?
This railroad connected the east coast and west coast of the United States.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Women's suffrage refers to this right
What is the right to vote?
Manifest Destiny encouraged Americans to move in this direction.
What is west?
About 200 American settlers were defeated by Mexican troops at this battle.
What is the Battle of the Alamo?
Gold was discovered in this state in 1848.
What is California?
One purpose of the Transcontinental Railroad was to move these three things west.
What are people, mail, and supplies?
This movement fought for women to vote in the United States.
What is the women’s suffrage movement?
According to Manifest Destiny, Americans believed God wanted the U.S. to do this.
What is gain more land?
Southerners wanted Texas annexed because of this valuable crop.
What is cotton?
This event caused thousands of people to move to California searching for gold.
What is the Gold Rush?
The Transcontinental Railroad helped do this to the country.
What is unify the country?
The Seneca Falls Convention took place in this year.
What is 1848?
This canal increased trade and transportation in New York.
What is the Erie Canal?
Northerners feared annexing Texas would add another type of state.
What is a slave state?
Settlers traveling west often faced these dangerous river crossings and diseases.
What are brutal conditions and sickness?
One negative effect of the Transcontinental Railroad was harm to this group of people.
Who are Native Americans?
Many women in the suffrage movement wanted equal political rights, especially this.
What is voting rights?
The Erie Canal helped New York by improving this.
What is trade and transportation?
One cause of the Mexican-American War was disagreement over this territory.
What is Texas?
The Gold Rush attracted thousands of people hoping to find this.
What is gold?
The Transcontinental Railroad made travel and communication across the country more this.
What is faster?