The document discusses key people, events, inventions, movements, and territories that were important during the period of Westward Expansion and the buildup to the Civil War in the United States. It provides questions to prompt the reader to identify important figures like Eli Whitney, inventions like the cotton gin and steamboat, territories acquired through expansion and war such as Florida and California, and movements like abolition and women's suffrage during this era.
10. What Am I?
• California
• Connecticut
• Illinois
• Indiana
• Iowa
• Kansas
• Maine
• Massachusetts
• Michigan
• Minnesota
• New Hampshire
• New York
• New Jersey
• Ohio
• Oregon
• Pennsylvania
• Rhode Island
• Vermont
• West Virginia
• Wisconsin
12. What Am I?
• Led by strong women who began their
campaign before the Civil War and continued
after the war ended
• Declared “all men and women were created
equal”
• Believed women were denied basic rights such
as the right to vote, educational opportunities,
equal opportunities in business, and limited in
rights to own property
14. What Am I?
• Leaders included both men and women
• Demanded immediate freeing of slaves
• Felt slavery was morally wrong, cruel,
inhumane, and a violation of democracy
18. What Am I?
• Time period
• Many people migrated during this time
• The Abolitionist and Suffrage Movements
began
• The U.S. acquired 5 new territories during this
time frame
26. What Am I?
• Specific time period
• War
• 1861-1865
• Disagreements over cultural
issues, constitutional issues, and economic
issues
• Country was divided in two
• Disagreements over slavery
40. Who Am I?
• I was an inventor
• My invention connected Southern farms and
plantations to Northern industries
• My invention provided faster river
transportation
• I invented the steamboat
48. Who Are We?
• We set off on a two year trek to explore
land recently acquired by the United
States
• We explored the territory that doubled
the size of the United States
• Thomas Jefferson sent us on our mission
52. Who Are We?
• We are known for an invention
• One of us was a slave
• Our invention increased the productivity of
the American farmer
• Our invention was the reaper
53. We Are…
• Cyrus McCormick and Jo Anderson (no picture
found)
54. Who Are We?
• We believed women were deprived of their
basic rights
• We worked to earn women the right to vote
• We were important leaders of the Suffrage
Movement
55. We Are…
• Isabel Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, and
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
56. Who Am I?
• I opposed the spread of slavery
• I issued the Emancipation Proclamation
• I was determined to preserve the Union-even
if I had to use force
• I believed the United States was one nation,
not a collection of independent states
• I wrote the Gettysburg Address
• I was the 16th president of the United States