What are: 1. purchased from France (Napoleon Bonaparte) 2. 1803 3. $15 million dollars (or 3 cents per acre - very cheap!!) 4. President Jefferson 5. Doubled the size of the USA.
100
This woman traveled with and translated for Lewis and Clark.
Who is Sacagawea?
100
These 2 tribes made Minnesota home when Americans moved into the area.
What are the Dakota and Ojibwe?
100
This type of power allowed trains and boats to move faster.
What is Steam Engine?
100
In this war the USA beat the British - Again!
What is the War of 1812?
200
This conflict allowed the USA to gain what is now California, Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.
What is the Mexican-American War?
200
These settlers went west to seek better farmland in a territory that had been given in a treaty from the British.
Who are Oregon Trail Pioneers?
200
This group of buildings was constructed so the US government could control boat traffic in Minnesota.
What is Fort Snelling?
200
This increased trade and travel between St. Louis, Missouri and California.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
200
These are taxes on imported or exported goods.
What are Tariffs?
300
This area was given to the USA in a treaty from Spain. US soldiers had attacked into this territory to defeat the Seminoles - a mix of Native Americans and runaway slaves.
What is Florida?
300
49ers went to this city and state to look for gold.
What is San Francisco, California?
300
The sacred place for the Dakota people was at the location where these 2 rives connected.
What are the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers?
300
These man made water ways allows boats to travel faster.
What are canals?
300
This was an effect of the War of 1812.
What is 1. Increased American Patriotism 2. Forced Americans to make more goods in the USA
400
This area was given to the USA in a treaty with the British to avoid a war.
What is Oregon Country?
400
The law that President Jackson used to push Native Americans off their lands.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
400
This number of Dakota were executed for participating in the Dakota War - the largest mass execution in US History.
What is 38?
400
Production of goods was faster with this idea to use parts that are exactly the same.
What are interchangeable parts?
400
This is how one country interacts with another country.
What is foreign policy?
500
This land area was purchased from Mexico for a the price of $10 million dollars - a lot of money for a little bit of land.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
500
The idea that the USA was meant to have all the land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is Manifest Destiny?
500
This was an effect of the Dakota War on Dakota women, children and men.
What is being kicked out of Minnesota?
500
This is the meaning of the term Industrial Revolution.
What is a change (revolution) in how goods are made (industry)?
500
This document told European nations to stay away from North or South America.