Vocab
Nickname for the southern United States
Sunbelt
Indigenous people of North America with hundreds of unique tribes.
What is Native Americans
A 2,000 mile route from Missouri to Oregon.
The Oregon Trail
A network helping enslaved African Americans escape to freedom.
The Underground Railroad
First Inhabitants of Canada
The Inuit tribe
American music developed from ragtime and blues with African rhythms
Jazz
Used for food, clothing, and spiritual ceremonies.
What is the Buffalo
5 Month journey that marked the beginning of large scale westward movement.
The Great Emigration of 1843
The name of those who joined the Railroad
Freedom seekers
Quebec City was founded by
Samuel de Champlain
The head of an elected government in Canada
Prime Minister
The Lakota, Cheyenne and Comanche Tribes
What is the Plain Tribes
An event that had a major impact on why people chose to go on the Oregon Trail.
The Gold Rush
Common Destinations for freedom seekers
Canada, Mexico, Spanish Florida, Europe
How long did the Fur Trade Last
72 Years
North American Free Trade Agreement; allows open trade with US, Mexico, and Canada.
NAFTA
Northwest Tribes lived in this?
Longhouses
Items brought on the Trail
food, clothes, coffee and guns
Required citizens to assist in capturing run away slaves.
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Who were the first to explore Canada?
John Cabot and Jacques Cartier
Taxes on imported goods
Tariffs
What is a reason why Tribes would go to war?
Resources, Territory, Trade
A Protestant Missionary and doctor who establish the Whitman Mission.
Marcus Whitman
A famous conductor who never lost a passenger
Harriet Tubman
Who fought in the Seven Years War?
Great Britain and the French