Early Expansion
Pioneers and Indians
Mexico v USA
On the Trail Again
Vocab/Misc.
100
The reason Americans had a hard time traveling west in the 1700s.
What is that the roads were bad?
100
Tecumseh wanted to do this to help prevent Westward expansion.
What is to unite all Native American tribes to fight against white settlers?
100
This old Spanish mission became a battleground for Texas independence.
What is the Alamo?
100
Although river travel was popular in the 1800s, this form of transportation became the dominant mode to get around.
What are railroads?
100
This was able to go up and down stream on rivers.
What is the steamboat?
200
Daniel Boone discovered and developed this to help Americans travel west over the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Cumberland Gap or Wilderness Trail?
200
This is where most Native Americans were forced to relocate to by the US Government.
What is Oklahoma (Indian reservations)?
200
General Santa Anna and the Mexican government demanded these 3 things for American settlers moving into Texas.
What are becoming Catholic, following Mexican laws/becoming a Mexican citizen, and giving up their slaves upon entering Texas?
200
These guides helped people through the Rocky Mountains into Oregon Country.
What are Mountain Men?
200
Define pack animal.
What is an animal, such as a donkey, used to carrying supplies?
300
The geographic features Lewis and Clark encountered on their journey (there are 3 terms).
What are the Rocky Mountains, the Missouri River, the Pacific Ocean?
300
President Andrew Jackson forced over 15,000 Native Americans to march West on this.
What is the Trail of Tears?
300
This was a reason why some Americans did not trust President Polk when he said Mexicans "spilled American blood on American land."
What is that people did not think he was telling the truth or the land did not belong to America?
300
This group escaped Illinois and headed West to find religious freedom. They eventually settled by the Great Salt Lake.
What are the Mormons?
300
This resource was why Oregon Country became popular.
What is the fur trade?
400
President ________ bought the Louisiana Territory from the French Emperor __________.
What are Thomas Jefferson and Napoleon Bonaparte?
400
Name 3 of the 4 ways white Americans got land from Native Americans.
What are war/fighting, treaties, trickery, or purchasing?
400
These states were acquired with the end of the Mexican-American War.
What are California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado?
400
This engineering project stretched from Buffalo to Albany, New York.
What is the Erie Canal?
400
The United States compromised with Great Britain to give Oregon Country to American on this parallel.
What is the 49th Parallel?
500
The tribe Sacagawea belonged to when she was young.
What is the Shoshone?
500
Name 3 out of 5 of the "Five Civilized Tribes."
What are Creek, Choctaws, Cherokees, Chickasaws, and Seminoles?
500
With America acquiring California, the United States stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean fulfilling this idea.
What is Manifest Destiny?
500
These are the reasons Americans began to move West.
What are they had a sense of adventure, wanted a fresh start, to explore the land and gain new farmland?
500
This was discovered on Sutter's Mill in 1848 causing a "rush" westward.
What is gold?
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