Expansion
Lewis and Clark crossed a huge area of land that gave the United States claims to this area of the country.
What is the northwest?
This lawyer and poet wrote the words to the Star Spangled Banner.
Who is Francis Scott Key?
This was a common result of both the Civil War and the Industrial Revolution.
What is change?
This invention produced cotton that was in high demand in both the Northern and Southern states.
What is the cotton gin?
Pioneers from all over the world traveled in wagon trains to California in hopes of finding this.
What is gold?
Lewis and Clark created these to help people move west more easily.
What are maps and trails?
The American people's desire to be free of this country's rule was NOT a cause for the War of 1812.
What is the British? or What is England?
I am the inventor of the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
This inventor developed a tool that made it much easier for people moving west to farm the land.
Who is John Deere?
Pioneers traveled from all over the world with hope of finding this free or cheap in the Great Plains.
What is land?
This physical feature passes through the Louisiana Purchase, providing a trade route all the way from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.
What is the Mississippi River?
This president, at the time of the Louisiana Purchase, was forward looking, had decision-making abilities, and was dedicated to his country.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The government passed laws to protect the businesses of the North by raising this on goods bought from overseas. This hurt the South and led to conflict between sections of the United States.
What are taxes?
These two geographic factors contributed to favorable conditions for plantations across southern states in the early 1800s.
What is the presence of mild winters and warm summers?
The government added large areas of land because they believed the United States should stretch from ocean to ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This major landform made up most of the Louisiana Purchase.
What are Great Plains?
In the Star Spangled Banner song, the phrase "Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave" refers to this.
What is the American flag?
Pioneers did this to modify the environment.
What is enclose the land they had claimed with fences?
Because they were following this river, is the most logical reason that Lewis and Clark veered northwest instead of going straight west
What is the Missouri River?
The purchase, made by Thomas Jefferson, doubled the size of the land under U.S. control and made additional land available for people to move west.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This modern day state was crossed by Lewis and Clark in their expedition.
What is Idaho?
In the Star Spangled Banner song, the portion "and the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air," refers to this.
What is the battle between the British and the Americans at Fort McHenry?
If you traveled the Transcontinental Railroad crossing several states, you would cross this type of agricultural/economic region most on your trip.
What is farming and ranching?
This invention helped the economy grow because goods were moved to markets more quickly and cheaply.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This man was responsible for acquiring the land of the Louisiana Purchase and these men explored the land.
Who is Thomas Jefferson and Lewis and Clark?