All About the Benjamins
WORD SLEUTH
Go West
Pioneers and Places
CRMS
100
The discovery of this expensive shiny metal in the Black Hills Sierra Mountains caused the US to violate its treaties with Native Americans
What is Gold?
100
The belief that the United States was destined to expand across North America.
Manifest Destiny
100
In 1848 War with this country ended with a treaty that gave us the right to buy territories like California, Nevada, and Utah for 15 million dollars
What is the Mexico?
100
This state to the south of Georgia was bought from the Spanish and gave us access to the Caribbean
What is Florida?
100
This science teacher has a doctorate
Who is Dr. Bennet?
200
The desire to build the continental railroad from coast to coast caused Americans to hunt and kill a majority of these animals.
What is the Buffalo?
200
In the direction of the west.
westward
200
This purchase from the French doubled the size of the country in 1803 and gave the US control of the Mississippi River.
What is Louisiana Purchase?
200
This president who came after Abraham Lincoln bought Alaska on the advice of his Secretary of State William Seward in 1867 for 7.2 million
Who is Andrew Johnson?
200
This is the last name of the security guard known as Ms. Linda
Who is Ms. Evans?
300
This ceremonial dance by the Native Americans led by Chief Sitting Bull scared white settlers who thought it was meant to kill them.
What is the Ghost Dance?
300
this is dedicated land that the US set aside for the Native Americans to live on
What are reservations?
300
Purchased for 7.2 million dollars from Russia this is the coldest state in the country.
What is Alaska?
300
This president loved the War with Mexico and defeated them.
James Polk.
300
This teacher was a former student at Chestnut Ridge and a student of Ms. Linko.
Who is Ms. Moses?
400
This Massacre happened when the US violated the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1851) in 1890 and killed 300 Lakota men, women, and children.
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?
400
A large painting applied directly to a wall or ceiling.
What is a mural?
400
This state was an independent country that got its independence from Mexico before it became part of the United States.
What is Texas?
400
This great American general and future president did not agree with the war on Mexico.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
400
This person runs the gaming club and is very tall.
Who is Ms. Siddi?
500
The lady in the sky in John Gast's famous "Manifest Destiny" painting, American Progress (1872), also known as Columbia, the female personification of the United States represented what two things
Technological Progress, and Economic Progress or Liberty, or Telephone or Electricity, or Democracy
500
an agreement between to countries or nations?
What is a treaty?
500
This small plot of land was bought from Mexico to help complete a railraod for 10 million dollars.
What is Gasden Purchase
500
These famous Native American Apache warrior from the Southwest of the United States has a famous name that isymbolizes taking a leap of faith, or showing courage (DAILY DOUBLE POINTS)
Who is Geronimo?
500
This teacher is Jewish and Puerto Rican and calls himself my twin because we are both short and speak the same languages.
Who is Dr. Eisenstein?