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- What is meant by “Louisiana Purchase” in this lesson?Westward expansion
- The 1803 purchase expanded U.S. territorial claims substantially.
- What is meant by “Manifest Destiny” in this lesson?Westward expansion
- The ideology justified expansion as a national mission and obscured costs to affected peoples.
- What is meant by “Indian Removal” in this lesson?Westward expansion
- Federal removal policy coerced Indigenous displacement from eastern homelands.
- What is meant by “Trail of Tears” in this lesson?Westward expansion
- Forced removals, including Cherokee removal in 1838–1839, caused severe suffering and death.
- What is meant by “Mexican-American War” in this lesson?Westward expansion
- The 1846–1848 war produced major territorial changes and slavery-expansion disputes.
- What is meant by “Expansion and slavery” in this lesson?Westward expansion
- New territories intensified conflict over the extension of slavery.
- What is meant by “Market revolution” in this lesson?Economic change
- Transportation and production changes expanded commercial connections in the early nineteenth century.
- What is meant by “Canals and railroads” in this lesson?Economic change
- New transport links reduced some shipping costs and reshaped settlement and trade.
- What is meant by “Industrial production” in this lesson?Economic change
- Factories reorganized production around machinery, capital, and wage labor.
- What is meant by “Wage labor” in this lesson?Economic change
- Workers exchanged labor for pay under changing employment conditions.
- What is meant by “Cotton economy” in this lesson?Economic change
- Cotton expansion strengthened slavery and linked Southern production with wider markets.
- What is meant by “Regional inequality” in this lesson?Economic change
- Economic growth produced uneven benefits and distinct regional dependencies.
- What is meant by “Abolitionism” in this lesson?Reform movements
- Abolitionists sought to end slavery through varied forms of resistance and political action.
- What is meant by “Women's rights” in this lesson?Reform movements
- Activists sought expanded civil and political rights for women.
- What is meant by “Seneca Falls 1848” in this lesson?Reform movements
- The 1848 convention became a landmark in organized U.S. women's-rights advocacy.
- What is meant by “Education reform” in this lesson?Reform movements
- Reform efforts expanded schooling while access remained unequal.
- What is meant by “Temperance” in this lesson?Reform movements
- Temperance movements campaigned against alcohol consumption or its social effects.
- What is meant by “Reform limits” in this lesson?Reform movements
- Movements could challenge one injustice while retaining racial or other exclusions.