Vocabulary
This word means "to change."
What is AMENDMENT?
This President was responsible for The Louisiana Purchase.
This was the river that Lewis and Clark traveled on when they left St. Louis.
What is The Missouri River?
This person was the first governor of both the states of Franklin and Tennessee.
Who is John Sevier?
The journey west by Cherokee Indians and other nations where many people died.
What is The Trail of Tears?
This word means "an early settler in an area."
What is a PIONEER?
This President was one of the strong supporters of manifest destiny, the idea that the United States was meant t stretch from The Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
Who is James K. Polk?
This place was discovered by Zebulon Pike and is in Colorado; it was the "blue mountain" that he saw.
What is Pikes Peak?
This person was one of the earliest pioneers to cross the Cumberland Gap.
Who is Daniel Boone?
The Oregon Trail began in this location
What is Independence, Missouri?
What is CESSION?
This President's wife, Dolley, saved many important documents when the British burned the White House.
Who is James Madison?
Mexican leaders offered people land in this state to encourage settlement after they won their independence from Spain.
What is Texas?
He was the leader of France who sold New Orleans and The Louisiana Purchase to President Thomas Jefferson.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
This invention caused more slaved to be needed because it allowed more cotton to be planted
What is the Cotton Gin?
What is NATIONALISM?
This future president was a general during the War of 1812 who led Americans to a victory in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This state had about 90,000 forty-niners arrive in it during the gold rush.
This person helped to translate and lead The Corp of Discovery for Lewis and Clark.
Who is Sacagawea?
These two modes of transportation made it faster and cheaper to transport goods and people.
What are railroads and canals?
This word means, "to adopt the customs of another culture."
What is ASSIMILATE?
Which President introduced the MONROE DOCTRINE in 1823?
Who is James Monroe?
Davey Crockett and Jim Bowie were famous pioneers who fought in the battle of this San Antonio de Valerio mission that was turned into a fort.
What is The Alamo?
These two men were crucial in the invention of the steamboat and the first American locomotive.
Who are Robert Fulton and Peter Cooper?
America wanted to go to war with this country after its navy ships were captured and its soldiers were impressed.
What is Britain?