Lewis and Clark
This U.S. President commissioned Lewis and Clark to find a land route to the Pacific Ocean.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This was the main mode of transportation used by settlers moving west towards the Oregon territory.
What are covered wagons or "Prarie Schooners".
Under the Homestead Act, this group of people would receive 160 acres of free land out
Who are the farmers?
The practice of forcing people to join the British Navy
What is impressment?
This president signed the Indian Removal Act, which gave the federal government the right to exchange Native American held lands for territory chosen by the government.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This was the only woman guide and interpreter on the expedition.
Who is Sacagawea?
The estimated number of people who traveled along the Oregon Trail.
What is 400,000?
This term is given to people who risked everything to strike it rich in California?
Who are the 49'ers?
This measure wiped out commerce between the United States and all other nations.
What is the Embargo Act of 1807?
Despite being pressured by colleagues to side with the president, this frontiersman, and U.S. House representative, argued that the Indian Removal Act was "wicked and unjust".
Who is Davey Crockett?
This was the main water route that Lewis and Clark traveled along on their expedition west.
What is the Missouri River?
Native Americans sought revenge on travelers of the Oregon Trail because of this.
What is the introduction of SmallPox?
The development of this form of transportation in 1860, allowed for goods and eventually people, to move much more rapidly across land.
What are railroads?
A group of young Republicans in Congress wanting to avenge actions taken by Britain towards the United States.
What are the War Hawks?
This Native American tribe won an important legal victory in the Worcester vs. Georgia Supreme Court decision.
Who are the Cherokee Nation?
The message from President Jefferson to Lewis and Clark and was to be given to each of the tribes they meet?
What was "We come in peace and claim this land in the name of the United States".
This new form of transportation led to the decline of the Oregon Trail.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This purchase, in 1803, by the United States, nearly doubled the size of the country and was the catalyst for the Lewis and Clark expedition.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The surge in pride in one's country.
What is Nationalism?
This Native American tribe was the only Native People to fight to the bitter end and wind up living out their lives in the Florida swamps.
Who are the Seminoles?
Lewis and Clark were assisted by Native Americans with mapping much of the expedition west.
Why some do not believe Lewis and Clark should be given credit for "discovering"much of their journey west?
These were three main causes of death on the Oregon Trail
What are disease, famine, and natural disasters?
The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable. (Google Online Dictionary)
What is Manifest Destiny?
This effect of The War of 1812, established the power of the Judicial Branch to keep a check on the Legislative and Executive Branches.
What is judicial review?
Name given to the event that saw 1/4 of all Native Americans forced by gunpoint to move to federally owned land, die from things such as disease, starvation, and attack from white settlers.
What is the "Trail of Tears"?