American Progress 1800-1850

Industrial Revolution
o Eli Whitney
o Samuel Morse
o Robert Fulton

Westward Expansion
o James K. Polk
o Gen. Zachary

Taylor

American Identity
o John James

Audubon
o Henry David
Thoreau
o Ralph Waldo
Emerson
o Hudson River
School Artists

People

Ideas/
Concepts

o Frederick Douglass
o Susan B. Anthony
o Elizabeth Cady

Stanton
o Dorothea Dix
William Lloyd
Garrison
o Sojourner Truth
o Harriet Tubman
o Harriet Beecher
Stowe
o Elizabeth and
Sarah Grimke
o Lucretia Mott
o Womens
Temperance
Society
o Horace Mann

o Northwest Territory o Hudson River

o Louisiana Territory
School and its
o Florida
Artists
o Texas
o Oregon Country
o Mexican Cession
o Gadsden
Purchase
o Oregon Trail
o Mormon Trail
o Mississippi River
o Rocky Mountains
o Pacific Ocean
o California

Places

Events

Reform Movement

o Industrial
Revolution
o Transcontinental
Railroad

o Mexican
American War
o California Gold
Rush

o Second Great
Awakening
o Transcendental
Movement

o Seneca Falls
Convention
o Utopian
Societies

Urbanization
Industrialization
Free Enterprise
Impact on daily
life
o Immigration
o Women/
Children
Working

o Manifest Destiny
o Migration West
o Spread of
Christianity and
Democracy
o Spread of
Slavery

o New Christian
denominations
o Desire to cure
Societies
Problems.
o Civil
Disobedience
o Developing
American Art

o Religious
Motivation
o Role of Women
o Abolition
o Temperance
o Education
o Prison reform
o Care for the
mentally ill

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in America

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1. industrialization when a country or

place develops a
lot of industry also
includes growth in
population, cities,
factories, and
infrastructure.
2. infrastructure - the
basic system of
roads, railways,
banks, etc. a
country needs in
order to work
properly
3. innovation - a new
idea, method, or
invention
4. interchangeable of two things capab
le
of being put or used
in the place of eac
h other
5. textile - any type of
woven cloth that is
made in large
quantities, used
especially by
people in the
business of making
clothes
6. urbanization - the
process where
growing number of
the population lives
in cities and there is
a growth of houses,
factories, shops,
offices etc.

American Progress Vocabulary Mortar Words

Westward Expansion

American Identity

Reform Movements

1. acquire - to obtain
something by buying
it or it is given
2. annex - to take
control of a country
or area next to your
own
3. cede/cession - to
give something
away such as an
area of land,
especially by force
4. emigration - to leave
your own country in
order to live in
another country
5. ethnic - relating to a
particular race,
nation, or tribe and
their customs and
traditions
6. famine - a situation in
which a large
number of people
have little or no food
for a long time and
many people die
7. immigration - the
process of entering
another country in
order to live there
permanently
8. manifest - plain and
easy to see; obvious
9. migration - when
large numbers of
people move to
another area or
country, especially in
order to find work
10. nativist - The policy
of protecting and
promoting the
interests of nativeborn people in a
country instead of
immigrants

1. revival - when
something
becomes popular
again; a public
religious meeting
with music, famous
speakers etc.,
which is intended
to make people
interested in
Christianity
2. romanticism a
way of thinking in
which feelings,
imagination, and
wild natural
beauty are
considered more
important than
anything else
3. transcendental experiences or
ideas that are
beyond normal
human
understanding and
experience

1. abolition - when a
law or a system is
officially ended
2. reform - a change
or changes made
to a system or
organization in
order to improve it
3. sentiment - an
opinion or feeling
you have about
something
4. suffrage - the right
to vote
5. temperance - when
someone never
drinks alcohol
because of their
moral or religious
beliefs

industrialization
when a country or place
develops a lot of industry also
includes growth in population,
cities, factories, and
infrastructure.

infrastructure

the basic system of roads,

railways, banks, etc. a country
needs in order to work properly

innovation
a new idea, method, or
invention

interchangeable
of two things capable
of being put or used in
the place of each other

acquire

to obtain something by buying it

or it is given

urbanization

the process where growing

number of the population lives
in cities and there is a growth of
houses, factories, shops, offices
etc.

annex

to take control of a country or

area next to your own

temperance

when someone never drinks

alcohol because of their
moral or religious beliefs

cede/cession

to give something away such

as an area of land, especially
by force

emigration

to leave your own country in

order to live in another
country

ethnic

relating to a particular race,

nation, or tribe and their
customs and traditions

famine

a situation in which a large

number of people have little
or no food for a long time and
many people die

immigration

the process of entering another

country in order to live there
permanently

nativist

The policy of protecting and

promoting the interests of
native-born people in a country
instead of immigrants

migration

when large numbers of people

move to another area or
country, especially in order to
find work

manifest

plain and easy to see; obvious

revival

when something becomes

popular again; a public religious
meeting with music, famous
speakers etc., which is intended
to make people interested in
Christianity

suffrage
the right to vote

transcendental
experiences or ideas that are
beyond normal human
understanding and experience

abolition

when a law or a system is

officially ended

reform

a change or changes made to

a system or organization in order
to improve it

sentiment

an opinion or feeling you have

about something

romanticism

a way of thinking in which

feelings, imagination, and wild
natural beauty are considered
more important than anything
else

textile

any type of woven cloth that is

made in large quantities, used
especially by people in the
business of making clothes