Westward Expansion
The U.S. purchased this territory from France in 1803, making the nation double in size (some would say the U.S. got it for very cheap!)
What is the Louisiana Territory?
This mineral was found at Sutter's Mill in Sacramento, California, causing people to "rush" to the state.
What is "The Gold Rush?"
Boomtowns became common in this state.
What are stagecoaches?
Most of the new settlers to North America came from this continent.
What is Europe?
These groups of men were fur trappers and traders in the Rocky Mountains who helped new settlers move to the west coast.
Who were the Mountain Men?
This group of 80,000 miners went by this nickname when they arrived in California in 1849.
Who are the "forty-niners?"
Boomtowns eventually turned into these once there was nothing left to mine.
What are ghost towns?
Many families traveled west in groups on the Oregon Trail in these vehicles.
What are wagons/wagon trains?
Spanish settler created these systems when they arrived in current day Mexico and California.
What are mission systems?
Brigham Young, a church leader, was responsible for leading thousands of Mormons to the Great Salt Lake in Utah using this trail.
What is the Mormon Trail?
Before the Gold Rush, California's population was made up mostly of these TWO groups of people.
Who are Native Americans/Indians and the Spanish?
Many of the mining camps experienced lawlessness and crime because the area they lived in lacked this.
What are laws and government?
What is a telegraph?
This U.S. state used to be claimed to be a part of Russia in 1799.
The dangerous trails in the Rocky Mountains used to move west were originally made by this group of people.
Who are Native Americans/Indians?
The Native Americans in California were forced to do this during the California Gold Rush?
What is slavery/work in the mines?
Who is Levi Strauss?
Due to the increase of people living in the west, construction workers built this to make travel faster.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
This English explorer met his untimely end fighting in the Hawaiian Islands after treating the natives poorly.
Who was Captain James Cook?
This dynamic trio is best known for exploring the new western territory, causing many people to move west.
Who is Lewis, Clark, and Sacagawea?
What is $2 billion?
This boomtown eventually turned into one of the largest and wealthiest coastal cities in California.
What is San Francisco?
This person was known for driving stagecoaches over some of the most difficult and dangerous routes, who was revealed to be a woman after their death.
Who is Charlotte (Charley) Parkhurst?
These TWO groups of people did not get along after one of them migrated to North America.
Who are Native Americans/Indians and Europeans?