HIS - Ch. 12

To help facilitate the increase in U.S. agricultural productivity in the 1840s and 1850s, the federal government

Why did American manufacturers, unlike their European counterparts, invent labor-saving methods and devices during the first half of the nineteenth century?

Which region led the nation in manufacturing?

By 1860, most of the nation's energy came from people and

What was the effect of the growth of railroads in the 1850s?

Who tended to benefit from America's impressive economic growth in the early nineteenth century?

Supporters of the free-labor ideal claimed that the system

What did free-labor proponents believe about education?

Which statement describes the economic status of Americans by 1860?

Three-fourths of the almost 4.5 million immigrants who arrived between 1840 and 1860 came from either Ireland or

Most German immigrants were the families of

What happened to most Irish immigrants who arrived in the United States in the 1840s and 1850s?

What did New York journalist and armchair expansionist John L. O'Sullivan mean when he coined the term manifest destiny in 1845?

How did the United States and Great Britain resolve competing claims on the Oregon territory in 1818?

How did white settlers who traveled west in wagon trains during the mid-1800s bring devastation to the Plains Indians?

How did the government respond when westbound settlers asked for protection from the Plains Indians?

What was the experience of most women who lived in Oregon?

Who led the Mormon exodus to the Great Salt Lake?

Within ten years of arriving at the territory around the Great Salt Lake, the Mormon community

Why were Mexico's northern borderlands vulnerable to American expansionists?

Who were the migrants who settled on the Texas land granted to Stephen F. Austin by Mexico in the 1820s?

Why did Mexico outlaw the introduction of additional slaves in Texas in 1829?

Texans gained their independence from Mexico in 1836 after

In the 1820s, Americans were beginning to trickle into thinly populated California; in an effort to increase Mexican migration to that area, the Mexican government

Why did Congress refuse to annex Texas into the Union?

What was the dominant issue in the 1844 presidential election campaign?

President Tyler obtained approval for the annexation of Texas

How was President Polk able to add Oregon to U.S. holdings?

When Mexico refused the Polk administration's offer to buy Mexico's northern territories, the United States realized manifest destiny would require

Which group was most outspoken in its opposition to war with Mexico?