Industrialization in the early 19th century led to all of the following except:

greater self-sufficiency

What advantages did canals have over railroads?

it was cheaper

This man founded the Mormon religion and

was killed by a anti-mormon mob in 1844?

Joseph Smith

The United States and Great Britain had a boundary

dispute and was referred to as...

"Fifty-Four Forty or Fight"

The battle near the San Jacinto River was responsible 

for what?

For winning Texas its freedom from Mexico

How were the borders of the lower 48

states established?

Through the Gadsden Purchase

The inventor of a new rubber product

that didn't freeze or melt was...

Charles Goodyear

The inventor of a mechanical reaper that did the

work of five farm workers was...

Cyrus McCormick

Which group played a major role in the

settling of the American West?

The Mormons

Land agents

Samuel Morse invented the electromagnetic telegraph (Morse Code).  

His invention was used to...

relay business orders and help trains run on time

Most people who used this trail were pioneers who 

traveled by Conestoga wagons or walked on foot...

Oregon Trail

This western trail was used mainly as an avenue

of trade

Santa Fe

Which empresario (land agent) presented the

Mexican government with a petition for greater

self-government in Texas

Stephen F. Austin

This treaty gave Native American nations control of the central plains but was repeatedly violated by 

the U.S. government

Treaty of FORT LARAMIE

the Mormon Trail

The belief that America had a God-given right to

expand across the continent.

the U.S. government

What trail extended from 

Independence, MO to Portland Oregon?

The Oregon Trail

Brigham Young

Why did the Mormons move west?

for religious freedom