New Territories
Spain gave _______________ to the United States through a treaty.
What is Florida?
Belief in the right of __________________—the idea that expansion was for the good of the country and was the right of the country
What is Manifest Destiny?
The discovery of______________on American Indian land in the southern United States eventually led to the removal of the Cherokee Indians in Georgia.
What is gold?
This machine was invented by Eli Whitney. It increased the production of cotton and thus increased the need for slave labor to cultivate and pick the cotton.
What is the cotton gin?
In the Lewis and Clark expedition, Meriwether ___________ and William _________ explored the Louisiana Purchase and the Oregon Territory from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean
Who were Lewis and Clark?
The ________________ was divided by the United States and Great Britain.
What is the Oregon Territory?
Cheaper and faster modes of _________________, such as rivers and canals (Erie Canal), steamboat
What is transportation?
"____________________”—As part of the American Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation and other tribes were forced to give up their lands east of the Mississippi River and to relocate to an area in present-day Oklahoma.
What is the "Trail of Tears?"
_________________ worked to invent the reaper. He was an entrepreneur who brought the reaper to market. The reaper increased the productivity of the American farmer.
Who was Cyrus McCormick?
American Indians clashed with United States settlers and the United States government during westward expansion. True or False?
What is true?
This state was added to the United States after it became an independent republic
What is Texas?
Knowledge of overland trails, such as the _________ Trail and Santa Fe Trail made it easier to move west.
What is the Oregon Trail?
This Act authorized the federal government to negotiate treaties with eastern tribes exchanging their lands for land in the West.
A) The American Indian Removal Act
B) Homestead Act
C) Chief Joseph Act
What is The American Indian Removal Act?
This man was an enslaved African American who helped Cyrus McCormick invent the reaper.
Who is Jo Anderson?
This is the term used for a person who is the first to think of or make something.
What is an inventor?
The U.S. acquired this land when Jefferson bought land from France, which doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
*_________ growth in the eastern states caused it to be crowded and made people want to move west.
* Availability of cheap, fertile__________ was a reason to move west.
What is population growth and fertile land?
______________v.____________ was a Supreme Court decision that supported the Cherokee Indians’ rights to their land.
What is Cherokee Nation v. Georgia?
The ___________________was improved by the entrepreneur Robert Fulton. It eventually provided faster river transportation connecting Southern plantations and farms to Northern industries and Western territories.
What is the steamboat?
A person who organizes resources to bring a new or better good or service to market in hopes of earning a profit
What is an entrepreneur?
War with Mexico resulted in _______________ and the southwest territory becoming part of the United States.
What is California?
________________ opportunity, such as gold (California Gold Rush), logging, farming, freedom (for runaway slaves)
“Trail of Tears”—As part of the American Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation and other tribes were forced to give up their lands east of the Mississippi River and to relocate to an area in present-day _________________.
A) Alabama
B) Pennsylvania
C) Oklahoma
What is Oklahoma?
The ___________________ provided faster land transportation.
What is the steam locomotive?
Prior to the Civil War, most industrialization in America was in this part of the United States. North or South?
What is the North?