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Moving West-Pre War
1820s-1850s
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Term referring to an obvious fate of the Untied States to grow and become powerful regardless of who or what was in their way. | Manifest Destiny |
| Term referring to the method of agricultural production in which landowners would allow tenant farmers to use their land in exchange for a share of the crops produced. | Sharecropping |
| The two presidents who mainly dealt with Manifest Destiny from 1841-1849 (#10 -#11) | John Tyler and James Polk |
| This wagon train party got stuck in the Sierra Nevada mountains during the trek on the Oregon Trail and turned to cannibalism to survive. | Donner Party |
| This U.S. general was defeated and killed at the Battle of Little Big Horn. | George Custer |
| This American Indian was victorious at the Battle of Little Big Horn. | Crazy Horse |
| The last battle between American soldiers and American Indians in S.D. with the mass murdering innocent women and children. This killed approximatley 300 American Indians. | Wounded Knee |
| This transportation system connected the east to the west with a golden spike on May 10, 1869 in Promontory Point, UT. | Transcontinental Railroad |
| These were the two companies who were hired by the federal government to complete the Transcontinental Railroad. | Union and Central Pacific |
| The two primary immigrant groups who worked on the Transcontinental Railroad. | Chinese and Irish |
| The first 11 presidents of the U.S. (IN SEQUENTIAL ORDER) | Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, JQA, Jackson, Van Buren, Harrison, Tyler, Polk. |
| The person (not the father) who brought the American migrants into Texas with permission of the Spanish government. | Stephen F. Austin |
| The first major battle of the Texas Revolution which was fought between Feb. 23 and Mar. 6, 1836. | The Alamo |
| The Mexican President & General of the Army at the time of the Texas Revolution. | Santa Anna |
| Texas's general and second overall president as an independent country. | Sam Houston |
| The U.S. Army's general who defeated Santa Ana in the battle of Monterey. | Zachary Taylor |
| The U.S. Navy officer who defeated the Mexicans at the battle of Vera Cruz. | Winfield Scott |
| The treaty that ended the Mexican-American War. | Guadalupe Hidalgo |
| The territories/states that the U.S. inherited/paid for after winning the war. | Texas, California, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, & parts of Kansas, Wyoming & Colorado |
| The U.S. negotiated with Britain for this territory in 1848 to fulfill the Manifest Destiny. | Oregon Territory |
| Essay: The Underground Railroad played a crucial role in helping fugitive slaves escape to freedom. Describe the purpose and operation of the Underground Railroad, including the roles of conductors, safe houses, and routes to freedom. | The Underground Railroad facilitated the escape of thousands of enslaved individuals to freedom, challenging the institution of slavery and contributing to its eventual abolition, emphasizing the power of collective resistance and solidarity. |
| Essay: How did slavery in America affect society, culture, and the economy? Explain where slavery started, how it grew, and what effects it left behind. | Slavery in America profoundly influenced society, culture, and the economy (north and south), originating from labor needs in colonial times and evolving into a system of racial exploitation. |
| Essay: Discuss the ways in which enslaved individuals resisted their condition and the consequences they faced for their acts of resistance. | Enslaved individuals resisted slavery through escape, sabotage, and rebellion, facing severe consequences such as punishment and death. Despite risks, their resistance challenged slavery's brutality and affirmed their humanity and agency. |
| Essay: Do you believe Nat Turners rebellion to be justified? Why or why not? Explain with details pertaining to the rebellion. | Open ended..... .understand the rebellion and the outcome it had on all slaves in the south after 1831. |
| Essay: Examine 1800s women's rights limitations and efforts to challenge them, addressing social, legal, and economic barriers, notable activists, and their contributions. | Stanton & Truth fought for equality. In the 1800s, women began organizing for better working conditions, notably in the Lowell Mill strikes of the 1830s and 1840s, protesting long hours, low wages, and poor working conditions. |
| What machine made slavery last longer by deseeding cotton 50x quicker. | Cotton gin |
| This time period of the U.S. had citizens move to urban areas to work in manufacturing in large factories. | Industrial Revolution |
| This inventor also created interchangeable parts, besides making the cotton gin. | Eli Whitney |
| This system helped improve working conditions and wages for women in the textile mills as well as not hiring children to work | Lowell System |
| This group started back in the 1830s' to improve wages and working conditions by striking and protesting. | labor unions |
| The father of the factory system | Samuel Slater |
| During this era, the United States experienced significant social, economic, and political changes, including westward expansion, industrialization, and debates over slavery. | Antebellum Period |
| This strain of cotton was discovered in the 1820s just before the American Indian Removal Act and slid through the cotton gin much easier than others. | Petit Gulf (Gossypium) |
| This slaves rebellion started in 1831 with as many as 60 whites killed and led to stricter slave laws. | Nat Turner's Rebellion |
| This cash crop took over in place of tobacco since it did not harm the land and could be grown faster | Cotton |
| Forced migration of Africans to the Americas for labor, lasting centuries, which was supposed to outlawed in 1808 | International Slave Trade |
| The leg of the Atlantic slave trade that transported African people from Africa to slave markets in the Americas | Middle Passage |
| A large network of people who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North and to Canada. | Underground Railroad |
| On January 1, 1863, Lincoln gave a speech abolishing slavery in the U.S. | Emancipation Proclomation |
| This amendment was added to The Constitution which made slavery illegal. | 13th Amendment |
| Those people who wanted to end slavery were called this. | abolitionists |
| The runaway slave from Maryland who became known as, "Moses." | Harriet Tubman |
| This woman, along with Susan B. Anthony, created the National Women Suffrage Association and was a great advocate for equality. | Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| This woman was a great speaker for women suffrage and against slavery and her real name was Isabella Bomefree | Sojourn Truth |
| Vocabulary term for women's right to vote. | suffrage |
| The first women's rights convention held in the United States. It marked the beginning of the women's suffrage movement. | Seneca Falls Convention 1848 |
| Creator of mechanical reaper | Cyrus McCormick |
| Creator of the steel plow | John Deere |
| Creator of the telegraph | Samuel Morse |
| Creator of the sewing machine | Isaac Singer & Elias Howe |
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