expanding markets and moving west

Question 1

Specialization

Answer 1

H

Question 2

Market revolution

Answer 2

People bought and sold goods rather than making them for their own use

Question 3

Capitalism

Answer 3

Economic system where private businesses and individuals control the means of production

Question 4

Entrepreneurs

Answer 4

Investors who risked their own money in new industries

Question 5

What year did Charles Goodyear develop vulcanized rubber?

Answer 5

1839

Question 6

Who patented the sewing machine in 1846?

Answer 6

Elias Howe

Question 7

Some inventions made life more enjoyable. Other inventions fueled the economic revolution and transformed…

Answer 7

Manufacturing, transportation and communication

Question 8

How many miles of telegraph wire crossed the country in what year?

Answer 8

23,000 and 1854

Question 9

What Pennsylvanian made a 150 mile trip up the Hudson River in the Clermont?

Answer 9

Robert Fulton

Question 10

Where did Robert Fulton travel to and from and for how long?

Answer 10

New York City to Albany, New York

32 hours

Question 11

Ships could now go upstream because of…?

Answer 11

Steam engines

Question 12

In 1816 how many miles of canals did America have?

Answer 12

100

Question 13

What was the nations first major canal?

Answer 13

The Erie Canal

Question 14

The heyday of canals lasted until what year and why?

Answer 14

1860’s and the railroads

Question 15

By 1850, _______ miles of railroad track had been laid.

Answer 15

10,000

Question 16

In 1818 the National Road reached from where to where?

Answer 16

Cumberland, Maryland to Wheeling, Virginia

Question 17

By 1838 how far did the national road reach?

Answer 17

Springfield, Illinois

Question 18

The south exported what

Answer 18

Cotton

Question 19

The west exported what

Answer 19

Grain and livestock

Question 20

The east manufactured what

Answer 20

Textiles and machinery

Question 21

When did the Erie Canal open?

Answer 21

1825

Question 22

John Deere invented the first _____ in the year _____

Answer 22

Steel plow, 1837

Question 23

What is the mechanical reaper?

Answer 23

It permitted one farmer to do the work of five hired hands

Question 24

Who invented the mechanical reaper?

Answer 24

Cyrus McCormick

Question 25

Who wrote in a Diery of her family’s five-month journey to Oregon in what year?

Answer 25

Amelia Stewart knights and 1853

Question 26

Who dreamed that the United States would become an empire for liberty by expanding across the continent?

Answer 26

Thomas Jefferson

Question 27

What does manifest destiny mean to many Americans

Answer 27

To express their belief that the United States destiny was to expand to the Pacific ocean and into Mexican territory

Question 28

Why did most Americans move west

Answer 28

For personal economic problems

Question 29

What was the greatest attraction to move to the west

Answer 29

The abundance of land

Question 30

What did white settlers and western Illinois and eastern Iowa do in the early 1830s

Answer 30

Place great pressure on the Native American people to move west of the Mississippi River

Question 31

Where did the Black Hawk war start and where did it spread to?

Answer 31

Illinois and Wisconsin territory

Question 32

When did the Black Hawk war end

Answer 32

August 1832

Question 33

How did the war end and what was the result

Answer 33

Illinois militia member slaughtered more than 200 Sauk and Fox people
the Indian tribes were removed two areas west of the Mississippi

Question 34

What grounded neither the Native Americans or settlers dominate

Answer 34

The middle ground

Question 35

What did the Treaty of Fort Laramie do in 1851

Answer 35

Provide various Native American nations to control the central Plains, land east of the Rocky Mountains that stretched roughly from the Arkansas River North to Canada

Question 36

What did the Native Americans have to do in return for the Treaty of Fort Laramie

Answer 36

To not attack settlers and to allow the construction of government forts and roads

Question 37

What was the busiest and most well known at avenues of trade

Answer 37

Santa Fe Trail

Question 38

Where did the Santa Fe Trail lead to and from

Answer 38

Independence, Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico

Question 39

Why did travelers group together after the first 150 miles to Santa Fe

Answer 39

They were feared of attacks by Kiowa and Comanche tribes

Question 40

In 1836 what did Marcus and Narcissa Whitman do in the Oregon territory

Answer 40

They set up mission schools to convert Native Americans to Christianity and educate them

Question 41

Where did the Oregon Trail start and end

Answer 41

Independence, Missouri to Portland, Oregon

Question 42

How many American settlers arrived in Oregon and more farming it’s green and fertile Valley

Answer 42

50,000 Americans by 1844

Question 43

What are Mormons

Answer 43

Religious community that would play a major role in the settling of the west

Question 44

What is polygamy

Answer 44

Having more than one wife

Question 45

In 1844 who is Jailed for treason and is murdered by an anti-Mormon mob

Answer 45

Joseph Smith

Question 46

Salt Lake City blossomed out of the land the Mormons called _____

Answer 46

Deseret

Question 47

In 1846 what did great Britain and America peaceably agree on with the boundaries of Oregon territory

Answer 47

To extend the main them boundary with Canada and West word from the Rocky Mountains to Puget Sound establishing the current US boundary

Question 48

Who made a 40 mile long telegraph between Baltimore and Washington D.C.?

Answer 48

Samuel F. B. Morse