Name
Test Date
April 8-9
Westward Expansion Study Guide
Westward Movement
Reasons People Moved West:
1.
Population growth in the East
2.
Availability of cheap
3.
Economic
,
fertile
land in the west
opportunities (Such as gold, logging
,and
fertile farmland)
4.
Freedom
for escaped slaves
5.
Cheaper
and
6.
Knowledge of overland
faster
transportation
trails such as the Oregon and Santa Fe Trails
Inventions
7.
Industrial Revolution
The dramatic change in economics brought
about by the use of machines to do the
work formerly done by hand. It began in
Great Britain and spread to the United
States around 1800
8.
Inventor
Someone who is the first to think of or
make something
9.
Entrepreneur
Someone who organizes resources to bring
a new or better good or service to market
in hopes of earning a profit
10.
Eli Whitney
Invented the cotton gin
11.
Robert Fulton
the entrepreneur that improved the
Steamboat
12.
Jo Anderson
Slave that helped invent the reaper
13.
Cyrus McCormick
Entrepreneur that brought the reaper to
Market
14.
cotton gin
Invention that created a demand for cotton
and the need for more slave labor to
cultivate and pick the cotton
15.
steamboat
Invention that provided faster river
Transportation that connected Southern
plantations to Northern industries
16.
reaper
Invention that increased the productivity of
the American farmer by harvesting crops
more quickly
Westward Expansion
17.
Manifest Destiny
The belief that expansion was for the good
Of the country and was the right of the
country to expand its boundaries to the
Pacific coast
18.
Louisiana Purchase
President Jefferson bought this area from
France which doubled the size of our
country
19.
Lewis & Clark
Men sent by President Jefferson to explore
And map the land we purchased from
France
20.
Spanish Cession
Obtained from Spain by a treaty and
Became the state of Florida
21.
Texas
Was a country called the Lone Star
Republic for 10 years before it became a
state
22.
Alamo
San Antonio mission where less than 200
Texans were killed by Santa Anna’s Army
23.
Oregon
Was divided at the 49th parallel by Great
Britain and the United States after jointoccupation for 28 years
24.
Mexican Cession
Area containing California and the
southwest part of the United States after a
war with Mexico
25.
Gadsden Purchase
A narrow strip of land in the Southwest
United States that was bought from Mexico
for $10 million for a possible railroad route
26.
Erie
Was an artificial waterway across New
York state connecting Albany on the
Hudson River with Buffalo on Lake Erie
27.
Oregon Trail
There were two major overland trails. This
trail took settlers to the Northwest
28.
Santa Fe Trail
This trail took settlers to the Southwest
Canal
Write the letter that matches the description.
29.
A
The U.S. in 1783
30.
F
Louisiana Purchase
31.
B
Spanish Cession
32.
D
Texas Annexation
33.
G
Oregon Country
34.
E
Mexican Cession
35.
C
Gadsden Purchase
Abolitionist Movement
36.
Abolitionist
Person who favors doing away with slavery
(Believed slavery was morally wrong, cruel and
inhumane, and a violation of the principles of
democracy)
37.
Underground Railroad
A system that helped enslaved African Americans
follow a network of escape routes out of the
South to freedom in the West
38.
William Lloyd Garrison
One of the first white abolitionists who wrote The
Liberator and worked for the immediate
emancipation of all slaves
39.
Frederick Douglass
Former slave who wrote The North Star and
worked for rights to better the lives of African
Americans and women
40.
Harriet Tubman
Former slave who led hundreds of slaves to
freedom along the Underground Railroad
Women’s Movement
41.
Suffrage Movement
Supporters believed that women were deprived of
basic rights (Right to vote, Educational
opportunities, Equal opportunities in business,
Right to own property)
42.
Isabel Sojourner Truth
Former slave, was a nationally known advocate
for equality and justice
43.
Susan B Anthony
An advocate to gain voting rights for women and
equal rights for all. She traveled the country
tirelessly giving speeches
44.
Elisabeth Cady Stanton
Played a leadership role in the women’s rights
movement and helped organize the Seneca Falls
Convention, the first Women’s Rights Convention