Lesson 1
land on the east coast was filed with farms and towns
Which country sold Louisiana to the United States?
Why did the United States and Britain become enemies?
British officers forced American sailors to serve in the British Navy
Why did small farmers and settlers like Jackson?
Jackson supported the working people
How did families travel to the lands west of the Appalachians?
They traveled in wagons or floated down rivers on flatboats
The Louisiana Purchase
Doubled the size of the Unites States
Why did Tecumseh want Indians to do?
He wanted them to unite to keep settlers away
When new states were made, who could vote?
white men who had land or money
Life on the frontier was
hard
Why were the expeditions of the Discovery Corps and Zebulon Pike important?
The expeditions led the way for pioneers and traders.
What did Francis Scott Key see that inspired him to write "The Star-Spangled Banner"?
Jackson did not like that poor people could not borrow money from the national bank. He ordered...
the government to take its money out of the bank
Why did fighting occur on the frontier?
the Indians did not want the colonists to stay and live on the land
After the Louisiana purchase, when were Lewis and Clark sent to explore it?
one year later
The Monroe Doctrine was created...
nine years after the British burned Washington D.C.
The Indian Removal Act
Choose the event that happened first.
British law forbade colonists from crossing the mountains
three years after the Louisiana Purchase
Which group did the Monroe Doctrine warn to stay away from the Americas?
Europeans
How did Jackson respond to the Supreme Court ruling hat allowed the Cherokee to stay on their land?
Jackson ignored the ruling and forced the Cherokee to move.