Name: ________________________

Study Guide
Topic 7

Daniel Boone Cumberland gap

1. _______________ ________________discovered the _________________ __________
which helped to settle the state of ___________________.
Kentucky These were key pieces for
settling the west.
Louisiana Purchase
2. The ________________________________ gave the United States more land. To
explore this land, Lewis, Clark, and Sacagawea went on an
Expedition
___________________________.
British
3. During the War of 1812, the _______________ navy would force
Americans Impressment
___________________ to fight. This was called _____________________________.
4. Helping the British during the war of 1812 gave the country a sense of
National pride
____________________ ___________________.
Eli Whitney
5. Who invented the Cotton Gin?__________________________
6. Pieces of inventions that could be used in multiple other inventions is called
Interchangeable parts
______________________________ __________________.
Transportation
7. To get from one place to another we use a form of ____________________________.
8. The first form that came about during the industrial revolution was the
stagecoach
_________________________. Uncomfortable

Takes a lot of time

9. Reasons that people tried to update how we get around….
Steam engine/
10.Another invention that gets us from place to place is the __________________________
steam boat

__________. To help use this invention, people built ________________.

Canals These are
human made waterways.
Iron horse/railroad
11.One more new invention was the __________________. At first it was pulled by horses,
Tom Thumb _________________ was built which was mechanically run.
but ________________
Samual Morse
12.The industrial revolution also lead to better communication. _______________
________________ invented the _______________________
Telegraph that allowed people to
send messages across the country using dots and dashes.
 Transportation
13.Cities started to grow because ________________________ was easier, there were more
Jobs/opportunities
____________, Immigrants
and more ________________________ came from other countries to
live in the United States.
14.By 1804 most _________________
northern states_________________ had outlawed slavery.

15. The northern states had more of an industrial economy, but the southern states had more
of an ______________________
agricultural based economy.
16.When Missouri wanted to enter the Union (United States), it wanted to be a
________________
slave state.
17.To compromise, ______________
Maine entered the Union (United States) as a
________________state.
free

Treaties
18.In the 1800s, the Native Americans had ________________ that said they could stay on
their land.
19.When the demand for land grew, ___________________ _____________________ said
Andrew Jackson

the Native Americans should leave their lands, and allow settlers to live there.
20.Congress passed the __________________
Indian __________________
Removal Act
_______ that forced
Indian territory
Native Americans to move to and area called __________________
______________________ in parts of present day ______________________.
Oklahoma

21.The _____________________
Cherokee believed this was unfair, and sued the state of Georgia.
Supreme court
The case went all the way to the ____________________ ________________. The
Native Americans won their case, but _____________________
President Jackson

_____________________ refused to obey the ruling.

22.In May, 1838, the ____________
Army forcefully removed 7,000 Native Americans, and
started the _________
800 2,000
mile march to the Indian Territory. About _____________ died in
2,000
camps waiting to move. Along the way, another ____________ died from
_________________,
Starvation Disease
____________________, Harsh weather
and _________ conditions
__________
The_________
_____________. The journey became known as _____ trail of tears ____ _________.

23.The __________________
Seminole Florida
fought back, and still live in _________________.
24.The idea that the United States should be able to claim new lands that would expand from
Atlantic Manifest destiny
_____________ ocean to _____________
Pacific ocean, is called _____________________
_______________.
Mexico
25.In 1821, _________________ offered land to people of the United States. By 1835,
_______________
20,000 people lived in this area, but complained of the Mexican laws. They
wanted __________________
Slavery but it was illegal in Mexico.
Alamo
26.Texans went to war, attacking the ____________, a Spanish fort. ______________
Texans won
the war after a year of fighting.
27.In 1845, Texas joined the Union (United States), but couldn’t decide on where the
_______________
Border $30 million
was. The United States offered _______________________ to buy
lands, but Mexico refused. War started between United States and Mexico.
Mexico City
28.U.S. troops captured the Mexican capital, _______________ ____________. The
Treaty
____________ of Guadalupe
____ Hildalgo
_____________________ _____________________ ended the war.
Mexico sold Texas to the United States for ___________________________.
$15 million

29.In 1848, __________

Gold was discovered in ________________________.
California