Chapter 26 Flashcards
How was most of the territory west of Texas obtained by the United States?
Mexican-American War.
Who was the American inventor and industrialist who made factory production more efficient by introducing the assembly line?
Henry Ford.
What does the phrase manifest destiny mean?
Americans had rights & duty to rule North America from coast to coast.
What does the phrase manifest destiny mean?
Americans had rights & duty to rule North America from coast to coast.
To which country did the most Irish emigrants go during the Great Famine?
United States.
The man who developed psychoanalysis to help mentally ill patients was
Sigmund Freud.
The woman credited with discovering radium?
Marie Curie.
To which country did the most Irish emigrants go during the Great Famine?
United States.
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
Freed slaves in states still in rebellion to the US.
What event provoked the secession of the Southern states from the United States?
Election of Abraham Lincoln.
Why was the work of Louis Pasteur important in the history of medicine?
He found that bacteria caused disease.
