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HISTORY TEST :O
this is a history quiz yay
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Louisiana Purchase | an agreement that almost doubled the size of the U.S |
| expedition | A journey taken by a group of people with a specific purpose |
| embargo | a law that is passed to prohibit trade with other nations |
| nationalism | loyalty and devotion to a nation |
| Monroe Doctrine | An American policy warning European powers not to interfere with the Americas |
| Indian Territory | U.S land in what is now Oklahoma where congress planned to move Native Americans |
| frontier | outer edge of a settled region |
| pioneer | an early settler of a region |
| wagon train | the common method of transportation to the west. in which wagons traveled in groups for safety |
| Gold Rush | in 1849 when many settlers moved to California in search of gold |
| textile | fabric that is woven |
| economy | the way that society or nation produces and distributes goods and services |
| industrialization | the process of moving from agricultural society in which most goods are handmade to a society that thrives on machine-manufactured goods |
| technology | the use of human knowledge to create tools and machines that allow us to navigate and control the environment does not have to be electronic |
| Lousiana Purchase | Cost the us $15 mill. Bought from France doubled the size of the U.S |
| Lewis and Clark | Goals-map the rivers make friends with the native Americans look for river passage that flowed to the pacific ocean |
| Indian removal act | Gold was found on Indian territory and the settlers wanted it Congress issued Indian removal act to force the indians to leave to Indian territory in Oklahoma |
| Trail of tears | it was an 880 mile journey ncluded over 60,000 Native Americans from the tribes that took place from 1831-1842 It Streched from Florida through Georgia Alabama Tenessee Mississippi and ended in Oklahoma The tribes involved where choctaw chickasaw ch |
| Responses to the removal | Choctaw tribe-only tribe that did not have negative responses Chickasaw and creek-captured and sent to indian territory Seminole- fought wars for land U.S gave up and they didn't have to move |
| Westward expansion | pioneers moved westward for trade to get fur rich resources land mild climate religious freedom search for gold trade with Mexican traders |
| life on Oregon trail | The trail route was 2,000 miles long; oxen horses and mules pulled covered wagons they traveled dawn to dusk cost about 600 $$$ for a family of four hardships invlved food shortages and supplies and water rough weatherrivers and mountains. |
| Levi Strauss | invented Levi jeans for stronger pants while people go mining underground or in rough woods |
| Samuel slater | first cotton spinning mill importance helped bring the industrial revolution to the us( memorized blue prints and brought them to us ) |
| Francis Cabot Lowell | first factory that combined machines which spun cotton into yarn with power looms importance workers with different skills working under one roof cloth was able to be be made faster |
| Eli Whitney | Made the cotton gin and interchangeable parts importance; massive growth in production of cotton ( 50 times more faster ) interchangeable parts factories could make identical producs at the same time |
| Robert Fulton | Steamboat the Clermont importance able to travel both downriver and upriver against the current of water |
| Erie Canal | connected the Hudson river to lake Erie and the rest of the great lakes making it much easier to transport goods from Midwest to east-coast |
| Railroads | moved people and goods more quickly and less expensively and over greater distances also connected people nationwide and allowed farmers and factory owners to ship their products all over the country. |
| Samuel Morse | telegraph- much faster way to communicate because signals can travel quickly to any location that also had wires ( also invented morse code ) |
| Cyrus McCormick | mechanical reaper - could cut about as much grain in a few hours as 2 or 3 men could cut by hand a day |
| John Deere | Steel plow- mad it much easier for farmers of the great plains to plow their heavy sticky soil |
| Elias Howe | sewing machine- moved the process of making clotes from home into factories and now clothing could be sold in stores |
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