Thomas Jefferson and His America.
He was Jefferson's Vice President.
Who is Aaron Burr?
Their expedition began in 1804 from this river near St. Louis.
What is the Missouri River?
Slavery was most common in this region: North or South?
What is the North?
The idea that America was always going to be ours for the taking as it was our "Birthright"
What is Manifest Destiny?
Many Native nations were forced off their land to move west of the Mississippi. True or false?
What is true?
This major land purchase in 1803 doubled the size of the U.S.
What is The Louisiana Purchase?
This Native American woman served as interpreter and guide.
Who was Sacagawea?
Enslaved people were often sold at these public events.
What are auctions?
Travels left the east, often Missouri, and traveled west along this famous route.
What is the Oregon Trial?
This 1830 law led to Native removal.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
He sold the land to Jefferson that doubled USA's size.
Who was Napoleon Bonaparte ?
Lewis & Clark’s expedition was officially called the COD.
The p is silent.
What is the Corps of Discovery?
She was an escaped slave known for helping usher 100's more to freedom.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
This 1848 discovery caused a massive rush of settlers west. But really, your chances of getting rich was less than 1 percent.
What is gold?
The Cherokee forced march is known as the Trail of _____.
What is the Trail of Tears?
Jefferson is most famous for writing this document.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This 1846 agreement peacefully settled the U.S.–British border in the Pacific Northwest.
What is the Oregon Treaty?
HT used this fictional subterranean passageway to free slaves.
What was the Underground Railroad?
This major achievement made of steel and wood connected the USA from coast to coast.
What was the transcendental railroad?
This President is most associated with Native removal
Who was Andrew Jackson?
Jefferson owned enslaved people, including many at this plantation.
What is Monticello ?
Who was York ?
This device helped expedite (make faster and more efficient) cotton production.
What is the cotton gin?
The main reason most Americans moved west in the mid-1800s was to get this.
What is Land?
The U.S. government often made these agreements with Native Americans. They were usually broken by the U.S. government.
What are treaties ?