Market Revolution Westward Expansion In Texas War With Mexico Inventors

Market Revolution $100 What is the word for the economic system in which individual control the means of production?

Market Revolution $100 Capitalism

Market Revolution $200 What is the term used when referring to farmers growing one or two crops to sell instead of growing enough for self-sufficiency?

Market Revolution $200 Specialization

Market Revolution $300 What is the term for investors who risk their own wealth in new industries or businesses?

Market Revolution $300 Entrepreneurs

Market Revolution $400 What was the major advantage of shipping goods by rail in the 1840s?

Market Revolution $400 Speed

Market Revolution $500 What was the first major canal in the US, the success of which led to the construction of dozens of other canals?

Market Revolution $500 Erie Canal

Westward Expansion $100 What Native American led the Sauk and Fox tribes in an armed revolt against the US?

Westward Expansion $100 Black Hawk

Westward Expansion $200 What is the term used for the concept that the US was meant to spread across the continent to the Pacific?

Westward Expansion $200 Manifest Destiny

Westward Expansion $300 What religious group that was kicked out of every place they tried to settle eventually found a home near the Great Salt Lake?

Westward Expansion $300 Mormons

Westward Expansion $400 What slogan was used when referring to American willingness to use force to obtain the Oregon Territory?

Westward Expansion $400 Fifty-four forty or fight.

Westward Expansion $500 What trail to the west was used mostly by traders who wanted to obtain goods from Mexico?

Westward Expansion $500 Santa Fe Trail

Expansion in Texas $100 What was the biggest incentive given by Mexico for Americans to move to Texas?

Expansion in Texas $100 Land Grants

Expansion in Texas $200 Besides acting as a buffer against Native Americans, what was the reason Mexico invited Americans to move to Texas?

Expansion in Texas $200 Protection against horse thiefs

Expansion in Texas $300 Who was the president when the US officially annexed Texas?

Expansion in Texas $300 James K. Polk

Expansion in Texas $400 What was one reason the US delayed annexing Texas?

Expansion in Texas $400 Feared war with Mexico OR Wanted to keep slave/free states balanced

Expansion in Texas $500 What was the best remembered battle of the Texas Revolution?

Expansion in Texas $500 The Alamo

War With Mexico $100 The war began when US troops blockaded what river?

War With Mexico $100 Rio Grande

War With Mexico $200 What short-lived independent republic was established in Mexican territory during the war?

War With Mexico $200 Republic of California

War With Mexico $300 What treaty ended the war and gave most of California, New Mexico, and Arizona?

War With Mexico $300 Guadalupe Hidalgo

War With Mexico $400 What general, nicknamed “Old Rough and Ready” led the troops at Monterrey and would eventually be elected president in 1848?

War With Mexico $400 Zachary Taylor

War With Mexico $500 What was the name of the settlement made in 1853 that authorized buying land south of the Gila River, completing the current borders of the lower 48 states?

War With Mexico $500 Gadsden Purchase

People $100 Inventor of the steel plow

People $100 John Deere

People $200 Inventor of the telegraph

People $200 Samuel F. B. Morse

People $300 Inventor of the steamboat

People $300 Robert Fulton

People $400 Inventor of the mechanical reaper

People $400 Cyrus McCormick

People $500 Inventor of the sewing machine

People $500 Elias Howe