The Louisiana Purchase
In 1803, the United States bought a massive piece of land from this European country.
What is France?
President Jefferson hired these two famous explorers to map out the brand-new Louisiana Territory.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
This is the name given to the brave early settlers who traveled West to find new land and homes.
What are pioneers?
As settlers moved West, Native Americans were forced to leave their homes and move to these specific areas of government land.
What are reservations?
How did settlers move west?
What is walking or traveling on horses or in wagons pulled by oxen or mules.
He was the third President of the United States who made the famous Louisiana Purchase.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This brave Shoshone woman helped guide and translate for the explorers on their dangerous journey.
Who is Sacagawea?
Many settlers traveled for months across the dangerous prairies in these wooden vehicles pulled by oxen.
What are covered wagons?
This unfair law forced Native American tribes in the South to move off their ancestral lands and head West.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
How did meeting Sacagawea help the expedition?
What is served as an interpreter, help trade horses, and build relationships with the Native Americans?
Buying the Louisiana Territory immediately did this to the size of the United States.
What is doubled it?
Lewis and Clarkâs group of explorers was officially called the Corps of... this.
What is Discovery?
The famous belief that Americans had the right to expand their country all the way from the East Coast to the West Coast is known as this.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This sad vocabulary word means to be forced to change your own customs, clothing, and habits to match another group of people.
What is assimilate?
Who does the Gateway Arch honor?
Who is Lewis, Clark, Jefferson, and Sacagawea?
The U.S. originally just wanted to buy this major port city so they could easily ship crops and goods.
What is New Orleans?
A major goal of the expedition was to find a water route that reached all the way to this ocean.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
The discovery of this shiny metal in California in 1848 caused thousands of people to rush out West to get rich.
What is gold?
The tragic, forced march of the Cherokee people to the Indian Territory, where many suffered from cold and hunger, is known as this.
What is the Trail of Tears?
Freedom from external control; supreme power or authority
What is sovereignty?
The Louisiana Purchase gave the U.S. full control of this massive river, which was critical for trade and travel.
What is the Mississippi River?
Along their journey, the explorers kept detailed journals to record maps, Native American tribes, and these two natural things they had never seen before.
What are plants and animals (or wildlife)?
This famous, 2,000-mile dirt path was used by thousands of pioneer families traveling from Missouri to the Pacific Northwest.
What is the Oregon Trail?
As settlers expanded westward, they nearly wiped out this massive, furry animal that the Plains Indians relied on for food, clothing, and shelter.
What is the buffalo (or bison)?
Native American leaders of the Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne when those groups fought against the United States at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Who are Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse?