| Question | Answer |
| In what two states was the Santa Fe run? (list the two states) | Missouri and New Mexico
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What caused people to go west on the Oregon Trail? | There was a depression
| Which states were once part of Californa? Hint: There are 6 states. | Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, CA, TX, Utah
| What present-day states were part of the Louisiana Purchase? Hint: There are 9 states. | LA, Arkansas, Missouri, SD, Montana, ND, Nebraska, Iowa, Oklahoma
| What present-day states were part of the Oregon Territory? Hint: There are 3 states. | Oregon, Washington, Idaho
| Who was the president during the Mexican War? | James Polk
| Name a product obtained from whales. | fat or blubbler (oil), spermaceti (candle wax), ambergris (perfume), baleen (buggy whips and corsets), ivory (decoration)
| What kind of transportation threatened the steamboat industry? | railroads
| Who worked in the factories for very low wages? | women and children
| Tell me something about Henry David Thoreau. | spent time with nature, built his own house, made pencils, wrote Walden, refused to pay his taxes, spent a night in jail, wrote “Civil Disobedience” essay
| List three popular American authors discussed in your text. | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Herman Melville, James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson
| List one result of the Compromise of 1850. | California admitted to the Union as a free state, New Mexico and Utah become territories, fugitive slave law will be enforced, slave-trade illegal in DC, but slavery itself was still legal there
| Was was Jedediah Smith’s nickname? | Mountain Man
| Who founded Mormonism? | Joseph Smith
| Who was John Charles Fremont? | Explorer and first Republican presidential candidate
| What is Nathaniel Bowditch known for? | greatly improving navigation
| Who convinced Japan to open relations with the US? | Commodore Matthew Perry
| Who organized the first women’s rights convention in America? | Elizabeth Cady Stanton
| What did Joseph Cinque do? | led a slave revolt aboard a ship |
