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Manifest Destiny
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What invention increased the need for slave labor? | cotton gin |
| Where did the South send most of it's cotten? | The North |
| Who came up with the "factory system"? | Francis Cabot Lowell |
| Irish immigrants to the US was a result of what event? | The Irish Potato Famine |
| To what area's did most Irish immigrants settle in the U.S.? | Minnesota, Wisconsin, and New England |
| What type of factors causes one to leave their homeland and immigrate elsewhere? | Push factor |
| Give an example of push factor | Few services, lack of jobs, unhappy life |
| What type of people did textile mills hire? | unskilled immigrant workers (mostly Irish) |
| What term is used to describe the "loyalty to one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole" that existed in the early mid 1800s in the U.S.? | Sectoinalism |
| Explain how the North differed from the South economically in the U.S. during the early to mid 1800s. | North-industry/finance; South-slavery, agriculture. |
| What was the main highway across the Appalachain Mountains in the late 1700s? | Cumberland road |
| List 3 reasons why river travel was the best choice during this time period? | Carry more and faster, less labor, and less cost |
| Why did the North want the protective tariff? | bc it would cause the South to buy from them |
| What was the problem with Missouri becoming a state before the Missouri Compromise? | The sound would be minority in both houses |
| What were the two main results of the Missouri Compromise? | Balance in the Senate and prevented future slave states from LA territory |
| At the Convention of 1818 , what was created in order to limit the number of armed vessels in the Great Lakes? | Rush-Bagot Agreement |
| What else was decided upon at this convention? | northern boundary at the 49th parallel |
| Which President said the following, "The North and South America are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers." | James Monroe |
| What is the 19th centry (1800s) belief that God clearly "manifested" (showed them) that it is the destiny (intended result) of the U.S. to expand its borders to the Pacific Ocean in order to expand democracy? | Manifest Destiny |
| What is the group of early settlers traveling to California in 1846 that became lost in the Sierra Nevada during heavy snows and lost 42 of 87 members to starvation know as in history? | Donner Party |
| What event caused about 80,000 gold-seekers to come to California in 1849? | Gold Rush |
| What were these people called | Forty-niners |
| What group of immigrants came also as a result of this event? | Chinese |
| List the 5 trails that Americans used to travel west | California, Santa Fe, Mormon, Old Spanish, Oregon |
| Polk ordered General Zachary Taylor and his army into the border region around what river/border that caused the beginning of the Mexican-American War? | Rio Grande |
| What treaty ended the Mexican-American War | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
| What is the land that included present day California, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming know as? | The Mexican-Cession |
| The US finally achieved "manifest destiny" with what purchase when it paid $10 million for Southern parts of present day Arizona and New Mexico | Gadsden Purchase |
| ______ was a mail service delivering messages, newspapers, mail, and small packages from Missouri to California by horseback, using a series of relay stations. | pony express |
| The ____ was a line that connected an existing network in the eastern US to a small network in California by a link between Omaha and Salt Lake City. | telegraph |
| ____ was a train route across the US, finished in 1869 | Transcontinental railroad |
| Who was President when the Mexican-American war ended? | James Polk |
| Who was President when American achieved manifest Destiny? | James Polk |
| What group of people is responsible for digging the Erie Canal? | Irish Immigrants |
| What is the land that included present-day California, Nevada and Utah along with parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming known as? | The Mexican Cession |
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