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, fertile land in the west
3. Economic opportunities (Such as gold, logging,and
fertile farmland)
4.Freedom for escaped slaves
5.Cheaper and faster transportation
6.Knowledge of overland trails such as the Oregon and Santa Fe Trails
Inventions
7.Industrial RevolutionThe 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.InventorSomeone who is the first to think of or
make something
9.EntrepreneurSomeone who organizes resources to bring
a new or better good or service to market in hopes of earning a profit
10.Eli WhitneyInvented the cotton gin
11.Robert Fultonthe entrepreneur that improved the
Steamboat
12.Jo AndersonSlave that helped invent the reaper
13.Cyrus McCormickEntrepreneur that brought the reaper to
Market
14.cotton ginInvention that created a demand for cotton
and the need for more slave labor to cultivate and pick the cotton
15.steamboatInvention that provided faster river
Transportation that connected Southern plantations to Northern industries
16.reaperInvention that increased the productivity of
the American farmer by harvesting crops
more quickly
Westward Expansion
17.Manifest DestinyThe 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 PurchasePresident Jefferson bought this area from
France which doubled the size of our country
19.Lewis & ClarkMen sent by President Jefferson to explore
And map the land we purchased from France
20. Spanish CessionObtained from Spain by a treaty and
Became the state of Florida
21.TexasWas a country called the Lone Star
Republic for 10 years before it became a state
22.AlamoSan 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 joint-occupation for 28 years
24.Mexican CessionArea containing California and the
southwest part of the United States after a war with Mexico
25.Gadsden PurchaseA narrow strip of land in the Southwest
United States that was bought from Mexico for $10 million for a possible railroad route
26.ErieCanal 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
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 MovementSupporters believed that women were deprived of
basic rights (Right to vote, Educational opportunities, Equal opportunities in business, Right to own property)
42.Isabel Sojourner TruthFormer 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