What is nationalism?

James Monroe was a strong believer in the idea that all the people should pull together with a sense of strong pride in their country. What is this called?

What is Cotton?

The rich soil and warm climate of central Alabama and Mississippi was perfect for growing this crop.

What is fur trappers and missionaries.

The first settlers in Oregon Country.

Who is Frederick Douglass?

This gentlemen was a powerful and eloquent voice for the abolitionists. He was born a slave but escaped by posing as a free sailor

Who are missionaries to the Oregon County.

Narcissa Whitman

What is the Monroe doctrine?

This doctrine warned European nations against interfering in the Americas. "The American continents are.. not to be considered as subject for future colonization by any European powers." What is the name of the doctrine?

What is Mexico?

Before Texas was part of the United States, it belong to this country.

What is a Wagon Train?

People traveling in large groups, creating long lines of wagons.

What is revivals (camp meetings)?

Charles G. Finney held these types of meetings that drew hundreds of people and brought them back their religious feelings.

Who is the person that owned land in California where gold was discovered.

John Sutter

What is The Indian Removal Act?

In 1830, President Jackson encouraged Congress to pass this act. It moved these people west of the Mississippi.

What is the delay allowed Sam Houston to set up an attack near the San Jacinto River. It also allowed more Texans to sign up to fight the Mexican army.

Santa Anna's men reached Texas in February, 1836. There were 184 men in a Spanish mission called the Alamo that stopped Santa Anna's men. While the men and the Alamo fought the Mexicans, this allowed these events to happen that helped Texas declare its independence from Mexico and set up a Republic of Texas on March 2, 1836.

What is the Mormon trail?

Brigham Young moved this religious group along this trail for religious freedom.

What is Seneca Falls?

In 1848, the first women's right convention happened in this location.

Who is Eli Whitney.

Inventor of the cotton gin.

What is the right to vote? In the east it was voting rights were granted to white men who owned property. In the west, it was granted to all white men- property owner or not.

Define the word "Suffrage" and tell how it was used in the eastern part of the United States verses the western part.

What is Sam Houston?

This man was the first president of the Republic of Texas.

What is the California trail?

People traveled this trail for 2,000 miles to seek fertile farmland and gold.

Who is Horace Mann?

This man said that education could produce "intelligent and practical men" who would not remain poor.

What is the right to vote.

Suffrage

What is the Trail of Tears?

Name the long journey of the Cherokee from 1938-1839.

What is manifest destiny?

This idea (belief) was that the United States should expand west to the Pacific Ocean.

What is life like traveling in a wagon train.

If our wagon broke down; there was always help among the other travelers. Many tried to leave us and go out on their own, but just as many returned. There was greater safety in numbers against the Native Americans that tried to stop us from moving west. It was a hard trip, but once it was over we had a new home with lots of land.

What is white men had the freedom to vote and own property. Women did not have the right to vote or own property. They were considered nobodies.

Compare the rights of men and women in the early 1800s.

What is a machine to harvest grain.

Mechanical Reaper