Robert Fulton
This person improved the steamboat for river travel.
Who was Robert Fulton?
This person invented the cotton gin in 1793.
Who was Eli Whitney?
Britain sold this addictive drug to China.
What was opium?
This French leader crowned himself emperor of France in 1804.
Who was Napoleon Bonaparte?
This person was the third U.S. President.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
Napoleon once sold the Louisiana Territory to this country.
What is the United States of America?
These two men led the Corps of Discovery as commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson.
Who were Meriwether Lewis and William Clark?
This native woman was a Shoshone guide who traveled with Lewis and Clark.
Who was Sacagawea?
Napoleon's final defeat happened at this battle in 1815.
What was the Battle of Waterloo.
Fulton's steamboat was called this.
What was the Clermont?
Whitney also promoted making goods with identical parts called these.
What are interchangeable parts?
This war was fought between China and Britain from 1839-1842. It officially ended for China in 1950.
What was the First Opium War?
Napoleon became powerful during this French war for republic-democracy government.
What was the French Revolution?
Jefferson sent explorers west to study this new land.
What is the Louisiana Pruchase?
In 1803, the U.S. bought land from this country for $15 million dollars.
What is France?
Lewis & Clark's goal was to find a route to this ocean.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Sacagawea helped by translating and acting as this type of helper.
What is an interpreter (or translator)?
This British general defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.
Who was Arthur Wellesley, 1st (Duke of Wellington)?
This river was the site of Clermont's successful trip.
What was the Hudson River?
This crop was known as the "king" of crops.
What is cotton?
Britain fought to protect this activity.
What is the opium trade?
Napoleon was known for being a strong military.
What is a leader? Or commander? Or general?
Jefferson was concerned whether the Constitution allowed him to make this kind of deal.
What is purchasing (buying) foreign land, specifically, purchasing the Louisiana Territory from France.
This purchase from France doubled the size of the country and added this number of states.
What is the Louisiana Purchase and it added 15 more states to the USA.
The Lewis & Clark expedition started near this city in Missouri.
What is St. Louis?
Sacagawea carried her baby during the journey, showing the trip was mostly this.
What is peaceful?
The cultural phrase of "ultimate failure" came from this Napoleonic experience.
What is "Meeting your Waterloo"?
Faster shipping helped grow this part of the U.S. economy.
What is trade (commerce)?
The cotton gin mainly affected this region of the U.S.A.
What are the southern states?
After the Opium War, Britain gained control of this island of China.
What is Hong Kong?
Waterloo took place in this present-day country.
What is Belgium?
Jefferson lived in a mansion called Monticello, and he owned over 600 slaves. He had multiple slave mistresses, but his favorite slave mistress was called this.
Who was Sally Hemings and she gave birth to 6 children--4 survived to adulthood. Jefferson was the father of Sally Heming's children.
This river was vital for trade in the Louisiana Purchase?
The Lewis & Clark expedition journey lasted about this many years.
What is about 2-3 years?
Native American tribes provided food, horses, and this guidance to explorers.
What is directional help? (Or tracking help?)
After Waterloo, Napoleon had briefly returned to power during this period.
What are the Hundred Days (100 days)? Napoleon escaped from the Island of Elba.
Fulton's invention made travel quicker than this natural power source.
What is wind (sails)?
Explain how the cotton gin increased the demand for this forced labor system?
What is slavery? The cleaning of the cotton gin demanded more slaves in America and Europe to pick from the fields of cotton.
The dynasty ruling family of China during the Opium War.
What was the Qing Dynasty?
After Waterloo, Napoleon was sent to this island in the Atlantic.
What is Saint Helena?
Jefferson was known for achieving three things that cemented him as one of the greatest presidents of the United States.
What are the achievements of Jefferson:
1.) He wrote most of the Declaration of Independence.
2.) He purchased the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million dollars and added 15 states to the USA, doubling the size of our country.
3.) He commissioned Lewis and Clark to explore the Louisiana Territory to expand the population westward. He increased the population of USA to over 600K.
The port city at the mouth of the Mississippi River was this, a very important trading route.
What is the Port of New Orleans?
The group of explorers was called this.
What was the Corps of Discovery?
Sacagawea appears on this U.S. coin.
What is the dollar coin?
After Napoleon's defeat, European leaders met to restore peace at this meeting.
What is the Congress of Vienna and led to (Pax Britanica)--the golden age of Britain?