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Ch.13 The Nation Grows
U.S. Expansion/Industrial Revolution
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History
5th Grade
04/13/2010

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What is a canal?

Definition

 

 

 

a human built waterway

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What is a cotton gin? Who invented it? and when?

Definition

 

 

 

a machine that separates cotton from its seeds, invented by Eli Whitney in 1793

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What was the Industrial Revolution?

Definition

 

 

 

The dramatic change from making goods by hand at home to making them by machine in factories

Term

 

 

 

What are interchangable parts? 

 

 

Definition

 

 

 

parts of a product built to a standard size so that they can be easily repalced

Term

 

 

 

What is a reaper?

Definition

 

 

 

a machine that uses sharp blades to harvest grain

Term

 

 

 

Explain what a steam engine is.

Definition

 

 

 

an engine powered by the energy produced from steam

Term

 

 

 

The change from making goods by hand at home to making them with machines in factories is called the _____________________.

Definition

 

 

 

Industrial Revolution

Term

 

 

 

Who memorized the plans for a spinning machine and brought them to the United States?

Definition

 

 

 

Samuel Slater

Term

 

 

 

Who invented the cotton gin?

Definition

 

 

 

Eli Whitney

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The cotton gin was used to ____________________.

Definition

 

 

 

remove cotton seeds

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Slavery was made very profitable by the invention of the ___________________.

Definition

 

 

 

cotton gin

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Name the first planned factory town in the United States.

Definition

 

 

 

Lowell, Massachusetts

Term

 

 

Farmers were able to cut four times more grain with the help of the _______ which was invented by _____________. 

 

 

Definition

 

 

 

reaper, Cyrus McCormick

Term

 

 

 

Who imporved the plow so it would cut through the tough roots of prairie grass?

Definition

 

 

 

John Deere

Term

 

 

 

List 4 developments which made it easier to travel by 1840.

Definition

 

 

 

1. canals

2. better roads

3. steamboats

4. railroads

Term

 

 

 

The National Road connected what two cities?

Definition

 

 

 

Cumberland, Maryland to Vandalia, Illinois

Term

 

 

 

Who used his knowledge of steam engines to build the Clermont, a steamboat?

Definition

 

 

 

Robert Fulton

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The Erie Canal connected the port of _______ with ____________.

Definition

 

 

 

New York, the Great Lakes

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Name 3 ways the railroad changed travel in the United States.

Definition

 

 

 

1. made travel quicker

2. pulled heavier loads

3. could travel almost anywhere

Term

 

 

 

What was President Andrew Jackson's nickname?

Definition

 

 

 

Old Hickory

Term

 

 

What was the Indian Removal Act?

Definition

 

 

 

an 1830 law forcing Native Americans of the Southeast to move to what is now Oklahoma

Term

 

 

 

What was the Trail of Tears?

Definition

 

 

 

the name given to the forced march of 15,000 Cherokee indians in 1838 from Georgia to the Indian Territory

Term

 

 

 

How did the voting laws change by 1828?

Definition

 

 

 

all white men over 21 could vote

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Give two reasons Andrew Jackson was different from other presidents.

Definition

 

 

1. he had little formal education

2. he came from a state west of the Appalachian mountains

Term

 

 

 

When does a landslide election happen?

Definition

 

 

 

When one candidate wins a large majority of the votes

Term

 

 

 

What power did the Bank of America have in 1816?

Definition

 

 

 

it was given control of the money supply of the US

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Manufacturers supported the tax on imported products because ____________________.

Definition

 

 

 

it made imported products more expensive so their products would sell better.

Term

 

 

 

Why did farmers resist the tax on imported goods?

Definition

 

 

 

They did not want to have to pay more.

Term

 

 

 

How did South Carolina challenge the authority of the federal government?

Definition

 

 

 

It threatened to leave the union if the tax on imported goods was collected.

Term

 

 

Name the Native American who developed the Cherokee alphabet.

Definition

 

 

 

Sequoyah

Term

 

 

 

Why were there conflicts between Native Americans and settlers in the southeast?

Definition

 

 

 

They both wanted the same lands in the Southeast.

Term

 

 

 

Why did Congress pass the Indian Removal Act?

Definition

 

 

 

To take Native American land

Term

 

 

 

President Jackson and Congress forced the Cherokee on to the ________________________.

Definition

 

 

 

Trail of Tears

Term

 

 

 

Who were the forty-niners?

Definition

 

 

 

people who came to California in 1849 to search for gold

Term

 

 

 

What was the gold rush?

Definition

 

 

 

The rush of people to an area where gold has been discovered, as in California in 1849

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Explain who the mountain men where.

Definition

 

 

 

Fur trappers of the western mountains during the 1800's

Term

 

 

 

What is a wagon train?

Definition

 

 

 

a large group of wagons that travels west together for safety

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Name the route that most pioneers took to go west.

Definition

 

 

 

the Oregon Trail

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List 3 reasons people traveled west of the Mississippi.

Definition

 

 

 

1. religious freedom

2. make a fortune

3. cheap land

Term

 

 

 

Explain why traveling west in the 1800's was a challenge.

Definition

 

 

 

The journey was long, difficult, and dangerous. People left their families and friends forever.

Term

 

 

 

______________ and _____________ were missionaries whose mission in Oregon Territory became a resting place for travelers.

Definition

 

 

 

Marcus Whitman and Narcissa Whitman

Term

 

 

 

Another name for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is _________________.

Definition

 

 

 

Mormons

Term

 

 

 

Who was the leader of the Mormons?

Definition

 

 

 

Brigham Young

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The Mormons settled in what is now the state of ____________.

Definition

 

 

 

Utah

Term

 

 

 

List 4 groups of people who moved to the West.

Definition

 

 

1. missionaries

2. mormons

3. mountain men

4. pioneers

Term

 

 

 

______________ discovered gold at ____________ in 1848.

Definition

 

 

 

James Marshall at Sutter's Mill

Term

 

 

 

The gold rush flooded California with fortune hunters called _________________.

Definition

 

 

 

forty-niners

Term

 

 

 

Prices rose in California after gold was discovered because _________________________.

Definition

 

 

 

demand was greater than the supply

Term

 

 

 

List 3 ways the discovery of gold in California affected life.

Definition

 

 

 

1. increased the  population

2. increase in prices

3. led to statehood

Term

 

 

 

A __________ is a statement that can be checked and proven true.

Definition

 

 

 

fact

Term

 

 

 

Personal beliefs or views are _______________.

Definition

 

 

 

opinions

Term

 

 

 

What is manifest destiny?

Definition

 

 

 

a belief in the right of the US to claim new lands

Term

 

 

 

What was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

Definition

 

 

 

The treaty signed in 1848 that ended the Mexican War

Term

 

 

 

Mexico gave Moses Austin permission to bring American settlers to Texas if they agreed to _____________.

Definition

 

 

 

become Mexican citizens

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Name 3 things American settlers were required to do when settling in Texas.

Definition

 

 

 

1. become Mexican citizens

2. speak spanish

3. become Roman Catholic

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Mexico outlawed _______ and stopped American ________ into Texas.

Definition

 

 

 

slavery and immigration

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Mexican president and dictator, ________________ was disliked by most Mexicans.

Definition

 

 

 

Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

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The Texas army was defeated at the _____________, a spanish mission in San Antonio.

Definition

 

 

 

Alamo

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Mexico granted independence to Texas in exchange for ___________________ freedom.

Definition

 

 

 

Santa Anna's

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In 1821, Texas became part of the new country called ____________________.

Definition

 

 

 

the Mexican Republic

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The first president of the Republic of Texas was _____________.

Definition

 

 

 

Sam Houston

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Texas joined the United States in _________.

Definition

 

 

 

1845

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Why did Mexico go to war with the United States?

Definition

 

 

 

Texas joined the United States

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The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo set the border between Texas and Mexico at the _______________________.

Definition

 

 

 

Rio Grande River

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________________ is the belief in the rights of the United States to expand its borders and to claim new lands.

Definition

 

 

 

Manifest Destiny

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Pioneers held the opinion that ____________ made it right to settle the West.

Definition

 

 

 

manifest destiny

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