Vocabulary
Impressment
British forcing American citizens to serve in the British army or navy.
What was the War of 1812?
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
(1803) Purchase of French land between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains that nearly doubled the size of the U.S.
What was the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
(1804-1806) Expedition to explore the Louisiana Purchase
What was the Trail of Tears?
800-mile forced march of the Cherokee from their homeland to Oklahoma.
Treaty
An agreement that binds two or more countries.
What did the US want to protect in the war?
Citizens (from impressment)
Trade (from British taxes)
How did most farmers ship their harvests?
By the rivers (water)
Who was the Shoshone woman who greatly aided Lewis and Clark's expedition
Sacagawea
Why did settlers want Native American land?
Crops
- Food
- Cotton
When one group adopts the culture of another
Assimilation
What did the US want to gain from the war?
Canada and Native American land.
What was the most important river for trade?
(hint: leads into Atlantic Ocean)
Mississippi
What was the name of Lewis and Clark's company?
Corps of Discovery
What forced most Native Americans living east of the Mississippi to leave?
(Hint: what government decision?)
Indian Removal Act
To take control of land and make it part of a city, state, or country.
Annex
Why did Native Americans fight for the British?
To prevent US from expanding west/taking their land.
Why did the French sell all of the Louisiana Territory?
No longer needed the port of New Orleans
(Haitian Revolt)
What was one of the main goals for the expedition?
- give me one
Find a waterway to the pacific
Find out how valuable the purchased land is.
Explore and find out more about the purchased land.
Establish relations with the Native tribes in the purchased land.
What were some of the reasons that so many people died on the Trail of Tears? (Name 2)
Disease
Cold
Starvation
Manifest Destiny
Belief held by many people during the 1800's that the U.S. has the right to expand from the Atlantic to Pacific.
What made the US believe they won the War of 1812
Andrew Jackson/Battle of New Orleans
Why was New Orleans important to the US' economy?
It was a port that could ship American crops to Europe to sell.
What was the big river Lewis and Clark tried to travel on?
Missouri River
How did the Indian Removal Act work?
Gave Native American tribes land out west in exchange for their eastern homelands.