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Manifest Destiny and Territorial Expansion
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Florida | Was received from Spain by a treaty. |
| Louisiana Purchase | Was sold to the US by France. |
| Oregon Territory | Was received from England by a treaty. |
| Louisiana Purchase | Jefferson bought land from France (the Louisiana Purchase). |
| Jefferson made the US how much bigger? | doubled the size of the United States. |
| In the Lewis and Clark expedition | explored the Louisiana Purchase. |
| Lewis and Clark went from | the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. |
| Florida | Spain gave this to the United States through a treaty. |
| Texas | was added after it became an independent republic. |
| The Oregon Territory | was divided by the United States and Great Britain. |
| California and the southwest territory | War with Mexico resulted in this becoming part of the United States. |
| Geographic and economic factors | that influenced westward movement |
| Population growth in the | eastern states |
| Availability of what kind of land? | cheap, fertile land Fertile = Able to be farmed |
| gold | Reason to go to California |
| Cheaper and faster transportation, | e.g., rivers and canals (Erie Canal), steamboats |
| Knowledge of overland trails | (Oregon and Santa Fe) |
| Belief in the right of “Manifest Destiny” | The idea that expansion was for the good of the country and was the right of the country. |
| The cotton gin was invented by | Eli Whitney. |
| Whitney's Cotton Gin | increased the production of cotton and thus increased the need for slave labor to cultivate and pick the cotton. |
| Jo Anderson (a slave) and Cyrus McCormick | worked to invent the reaper. |
| The reaper increased | the productivity of the American farmer. |
| The steamboat was improved by | Robert Fulton. |
| Fulton's steamboat | provided faster river transportation that connected Southern plantations and farms to Northern industries and Western territories. |
| The steam locomotive | provided faster land transportation. |
| Most abolitionists demanded | immediate freeing of the slaves. |
| Abolitionists believed that | slavery was wrong. |
| A violation of the principles of democracy | Declaration of Independence: “All Men are Created Equal!!!” |
| Abolitionist leaders included | Harriet Tubman, William, Lloyd Garrison & Frederick Douglass |
| Suffragists | declared that “All men and women are created equal.” |
| Suffragists believed that | women were deprived of basic rights. |
| The Suffragists movement was led by | Isabel Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony & Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| you're pretty ugly | yeah that's right I'm taylor swift |
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