Exploring the West
Expanding the Borders
From Ocean to Ocean
New Ideas and Inventions
Review
100
This is one way over the Appalachians. It was an old Native American trail.
What is the Cumberland Gap?
100
He united his people to protect his lands from the incoming pioneers who were taking over his people's land.
Who is Chief Tecumseh?
100
Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie fought in this battle in Texas.
What is The Alamo?
100
This was built to help transportation of people and goods with the help of a horse.
What is a canal or the Erie Canal?
100
He invented the telegraph.
Who is Samuel Morse?
200
He was one of the best known pioneers to cross the Appalatians.
Who is Daniel Boone?
200
British took over American ships and made the sailors slaves. This is call what?
What is impressment?
200
He defeated the Texans at The Alamo.
Who is General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna?
200
What two methods of transportation changed the way people traveled?
What are steamboats and the railroads?
200
He invented the steel plow.
Who is John Deere?
300
This state became the seventeenth state.
What is Ohio?
300
He wrote the national anthem.
Who is Francis Scott Key?
300
In order to be set free Santa Anna did this.
What is granted Texas its indenpendence?
300
The change of manufacturing was called this.
What is The Industrial Revolution?
300
To give up something as the Mexicans did with California is called this.
What is cession or concession?
400
Thomas Jefferson purchased this because the United States did not have any ports on the Gulf of Mexico.
What is The Louisiana Purchase?
400
He was president during the War of 1812.
Who is James Madison?
400
He lead the Mormons on the Mormon Trail.
Who is Brigham Young?
400
He invented the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
400
This meant to adopt a new way of life.
What is assimilate?
500
These two men put together a team to explore the west called The Corps of Discovery.
Who were Meriwerher Lewis and William Clark?
500
The British attacked what city as Key wrote the national anthem?
What is Baltimore, Maryland?
500
90,000 people arrived in California in 1849 because of this.
What is the gold rush?
500
He invented the mechanical reaper.
Who is Cyrus McCormick?
500
The Native American walk 800 miles to a new place to live. This was call what?
What is The Trail of Tears?
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