11 1800-1870 American Identity facts

Manifest Destiny was an idea popular in America during the

• Great Depression

• War of 1812

• mid 1800's

• early 1900's

In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson purchased 828,000 square miles of land in North America from

• Manifest Destiny

• France

• Andrew Jackson

• Robert Fulton

Lewis and Clark explored the Louisiana Territory, which had been purchased by ______ in ______.

• Jackson, 1812

• Jefferson, 1778

• Jackson, 1777

• Jefferson, 1803

What helped bring about the Industrial Revolution in the United States?

• the cotton gin

• the potato famine

• the Declaration of Independence

• Manifest destiny

In the U.S. the cotton gin revolutionized industry in the

• North

• South

The gold rush in California began in _____

• 1776

• 1812

• 1849

• 1860

In the first half of the 19th century, hundreds of thousands of immigrants arrived in American, mostly from _____.

• Africa

• Australia

• South America

• Europe

Robert Fulton invented the _____.

• cotton gin

• Manifest Destiny

• steamboat

• fidget spinner

A "tragic policy of Indian removal," which move more than 100,000 Native Americans from their homes in 1838 was called the

• Louisiana Purchase

• Trail of Tears

• Gold Rush

• Reconstruction Era

People who worked to end slavery were called _____.

• Jim Crows

• steamboats

• abolitionists

• common men