8-Moving West

1. How did businesses make a profit in the early 1800s?

2. How were messages sent before the invention of the telegraph?

3. How did mass production help businesses?

4. What is the Industrial Revolution?

5. What are some effects of industrialization?

6. How were the earliest factories powered?

7. What connected the East with the West?

8. What invention made navigating through narrow waterways easier and faster?

9. How did canals change transportation?

10. How did railroads change the transportation industry? 

Why did Americans heat west to Mexico in the 1820s?

1. What sparked the Texas Revolution in the 1836?

2. What happened at the Alamo?

3. How did Texas become a free country?

4. Why was there a Missouri Compromise?

5. What is the Missouri Compromise?

6. What was Manifest Destiny?

7. Why did President Polk go to war with Mexico?

8. What ended the Mexican War?

9. How did the U.S. gain more land after the Mexican War?

10. What are five of the seven states that the United States gained after war with Mexico?

1. What was one effect of the newly won and purchased lands?

2. What were some negative consequences to migrating?

3. What states made up Oregon Country?

4. What enticed people to move to Oregon Country?

5. Where did Mormon Trail take the Mormons to settle?

6. Why did the Mormons settle in the West?

7. Which trail led Americans to the Southwest?

8. Which geographic areas made up the Santa Fe Trail?

9. How could one arrive to California?

10. What were some of the vehicles used to travel to the West? 

1. What made gold attractive?

2. What was the gold rush?

3. Who were the forty-niners?

4. What is an entrepreneur?

5. Which groups faced discrimination in California?

6. How did the U.S. government encourage their discrimination?

7. How had communications changed by 1860?

8. What caused the Pony Express to end by 1869?

9. How did business in California grow in the late 1860s?

10. How did workers obtain gold?  What were the conditions?

Part I.  Inventions

1. canals

2. cotton gin

3. entrepreneurs

4. factories

5. interchangeable parts

6. mass production

7. railroad

8. steam power

9. telegraph

10. wagon trains and prairie schooners

Part II - Westward Expansion

1.  How did the U.S. government support westward expansion?

2. How did the U.S. obtain Texas?

3. How did the United States achieve manifest destiny?

4. How was the U.S. able to keep a balance of slave and free states?

5. How were groups like Mexicans and Chinese treated similarly as Africans were?

6. Which religious group settled in Utah as a result of persecution?

7. What caused the population of California to increase?

8. What made it easier for Americans to migrate westward?

9. What was the cause of the War with Mexico?

10.What was the result of dissent amongst Texans and Tejanos with the Mexican government over independence?