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WCMS6WestwardExpan.
Westward Expansion and Reform
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| President Jefferson bought this land from France and it nearly doubled the size of the United States. | The Louisiana Purchase |
| War with Mexico resulted in this state and the Southwest Territory becoming part of the United States. | California |
| Who explored the Louisiana Purchase? | Meriwether Lewis & William Clark |
| How did Florida become part of the US? | Spain gave Florida to the US through a treaty |
| This became part of the US after it broke away from Mexico to become an independent republic. | Texas |
| This land was split between the US and Great Britain. | Oregon Territory |
| What is a geographical area under the control of an independent nation called? | territory |
| What two territories did Lewis and Clark explore? | The Louisiana Purchase and the Oregon Territory (from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean) |
| What are the four economic reasons for westward expansion? | gold (California Gold Rush), logging, farming, and freedom for runaway slaves |
| How did the US government encourage westward expansion? | it gave away land to people (Homestead Act) |
| Population growth in the east led to... | westward migration or expanion |
| What were modes of cheap and fast transportation that aided in westward expansion? | steamboats and locomotives (trains) |
| What two trails did settlers take to get to the west? | Oregon and Santa Fe |
| What is Manifest Destiny? | The belief that expansion was for the good of the US and was the right of the US (the US should expand as far as the Pacific Ocean) |
| Gold that was discovered in this state led to a gold rush in 1849. | California |
| This manmade body of water located in New York helped link the east to the west and made transporting goods and people cheaper and faster. | Erie Canal |
| Who invented the reaper? | Cyrus McCormick and Jo Anderson |
| This invention led to the increase in slave labor. | the cotton gin |
| Who improved the steamboat? | Robert Fulton |
| This slave helped invent the reaper. | Jo Anderson |
| This man invented the cotton gin. | Eli Whitney |
| This invention increased the productivity of the American farmer. | the reaper |
| This invention provided faster transporation that connected the Southern plantations, Northern industries, and Western territories. | the steamboat |
| This invention provided faster LAND transportation. | the steam locomotive or train |
| What is an entrepreneur? | a person who organizes resources to bring new or better goods and services to market to make a profit OR a businessman |
| What is a person who is the first to think of or make something called? | an inventor |
| Men and women who worked to end slavery were known as? | abolitionists |
| What is suffrage? | the right to vote |
| Who led hundreds of slaves to freedom through the Underground Railroad? | Harriet Tubman |
| What white abolitionist wrote the Liberator that called for the immediate freedom of slaves? | William Lloyd Garrison |
| What former slave was nationally known as an advocate for equality and justive? | Sojourner Truth |
| Who believed that all men and women were equal? | suffragists or suffragetts |
| This former slave wrote the North Star newspaper and worked for rights for African Americans to better their lives | Frederick Douglass |
| Women's Rights : Suffrage :: Slavery : ______________________ | Abolition |
| Robert Fulton : Steamboat :: Eli Whitney : ________________________ | Cotton Gin |
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