1820 to 1850
US Expansion
Industrial Revolution
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| 990242859 | Louisiana Purchase | first major part of US Expansion, 1803 from France | |
| 990242860 | France | the country the US purchased Louisiana from | |
| 990242861 | Thomas Jefferson | President who bought the Louisiana Purchase | |
| 990242862 | Napolean | leader of France when the US bought Louisiana | |
| 990242863 | Lewis and Clark | the explorers sent by Jefferson to study and map the Louisiana Purchase | |
| 990242864 | Missouri River | the physical feature Lewis & Clark followed on their journey through the Louisiana Purchase | |
| 990242865 | 1803 | the year the US bought the Lousiana Purchase | |
| 990242866 | Adams-Onis Treaty | the agreement that gave Florida to the US | |
| 990242867 | Spain | the country the US bought Florida from | |
| 990242868 | Texas | this territory fought for it's OWN independence before joining the US | |
| 990242869 | Oregon | the US gained this territory in an agreement with Britain; Britain received British Columbia | |
| 990242870 | Mexican Cession | the result of the Mexican-American War, California was part of this territory | |
| 990242871 | cede | to give up, usually by treaty | |
| 990242872 | Gadsden Purchase | territory of desert bought from Mexico in 1853, originally considered for building the transcontinental railroad | |
| 990242873 | Manifest Destiny | the belief the US would reach from the Atlantic to Pacific Ocean | |
| 990242874 | John Quincy Adams | the president who was involved in buying Florida | |
| 990242875 | Industrial Revolution | period during the 1800s of extremely rapid growth in the use of machines and factories | |
| 990242876 | cotton gin | invention by Eli Whitney that enabled farmers in the south to grow more of this crop | |
| 990242877 | Eli Whitney | inventor of the cotton gin | |
| 990242878 | Zebulon Pike | explorer who explored Northern Kansas | |
| 990242879 | Stephen Long | explorer who coined the phrase "The Great American Desert" | |
| 990242880 | embargo | banning trade with a country | |
| 990242881 | Santa Fe Trail | trail used for TRADE | |
| 990242882 | Oregon Trail | trail used to MOVE and start new farms | |
| 990242883 | interchangeable parts | making the parts of things the EXACT same, so if one part breaks you can simply replace it | |
| 990242884 | mass production | making a lot of the exact same thing | |
| 990242885 | assembly line | system of putting items together in order, allows workers to specialize on a certain part | |
| 990242886 | War of 1812 | conflict with Britain, aka Mr. Madison's War | |
| 990242887 | James Monroe | president during the Era of Good Feelings | |
| 990242888 | Coronado | first explorer to Kansas | |
| 990242889 | transcontinental | "across" a large section of land; Railroad | |
| 990242890 | Alien & Sedition Acts | allowed the President to kick immigrants out of the country | |
| 990242891 | precedent | an action that later serves as an example to the future | |
| 990242892 | Scientific Method | observation and experimentation of natural events to form theories that predict other events | |
| 990242893 | New York City | first capital of the United States | |
| 990242894 | cede | to give up, usually by treaty | |
| 990242895 | Monroe Doctrine | said that Europe should stay out of the Western Hemisphere | |
| 990242896 | Simon Bolivar | leader in South America who helped a lot of countries fight for freedom | |
| 990242897 | Independence, MO | city where BOTH trails started | |
| 990242898 | Willamette Valley | where the Oregon Trail ended | |
| 990242899 | Salt Lake City | city where Mormons settled | |
| 990242900 | Sacramento | city where the California Trail ended | |
| 990242901 | Promontory Point, UT | where the Transcontinental Railroad met, the golden spike was placed here | |
| 990242902 | Mexican-American War | how the US gained California | |
| 990242903 | telegraph | invention that allowed Americans to send messages over a distance, leads to the telephone | |
| 990242904 | Samuel Morse | inventor of the telegraph, a CODE is named after him | |
| 990242905 | XYZ Affair | scandal where Americans bribed French officals, officals were named Agent ___, Agent ___, and Agent ___ | |
| 990242906 | forts | things built along the Santa Fe trail to provide protection | |
| 990242907 | confluence | where to rivers meet, or come TOGETHER | |
| 990242908 | Andrew Jackson | the 7th president, fought Seminole indians in Flordia | |
| 990412979 | Florida | T erritory given by Spain to U.S. by treaty | |
| 990412980 | California | Territory gained through the war with Mexico and included southwest territory becoming part of U.S |
