history quiz fun Flashcards
Raising one or two cash crop to sell at home or abroad
Specialization
People bought and sold clothes instead of making them for their own use
Market revolution
-System where private businesses and individuals control the means of production
-Factories, machines, and land for profit
Capitalism
Risk money in new industries to gain a profit
Entrepreneur
Independence, Missouri to Portland, Oregon
Oregon Trail
Rebellions that erupted after Santa Anna revoked local powers in Texas and other Mexican states
Texas Revolution
Abandoned mission and fort where Texans attacked Mexicans
alamo
Led the Texans
Sam Houston
The belief that U.S. was destined by God to spread it’s “empire of liberty” across North America
manifest destiny
Provided various Native American nations to control the central plains- land east of Rocky Mountains
In return the Native Americans promised to not attack settlers and to allow them to construct government forts and roads
Treaty of Fort Laramie
Independance, Missouri to Sante Fe, New Mexico
santa fe trail
Mexico agrees that the Rio Grande river is the border for Texas and cedes New Mexico and California to the U.S.
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Established the borders of the lower 48 states
Gadsden Purchase
Started in 1849 (gold first found in 1848)
Intense migration of people wanting to benefit from the gold
Gold Rush
The prospectors going to California looking for gold
Forty Niners
President
Had territorial aspirations and did not peacefully solve issues with Mexico
James K Polk
Marched to the Rio Grande river to blockade the river
Mexicans viewed this as a violation of their rights
Zachary Taylor
