Louisiana Purchase
France's leader that wanted to sell the land to the US.
Who was Napoleon?
The area of the USA where many tornadoes happen is called this.
What is Tornado Alley?
The Native tribes of the Great Plains depended on this animal for everything.
What is American buffalo or American bison?
This is where John Sutton saw a gold nugget while starting to build a mill.
What is a river in California?
This is considered the beginning of Westward Expansion west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This city in Louisiana was very valuable because it was a port that connected the ocean to the Mississippi River.
What is New Orleans?
Cold air comes down from this place to meet with warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico and creates storms that become tornadoes.
What is Canada?
Every winter, the Native families of the Great Plains would think about important events of the past year and add symbols to this skin to help tell the story of their family.
What is the Winter Count?
This word means, "There it is!" in Greek and became the joyful shout of people who found gold. It is also the capital of California.
What is Eureka?
This group was sent out by the president to explore and make maps of the newly acquired Louisiana Territory.
Who are Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery?
This is how much bigger the US was after the Purchase.
What is double in size?
This flat area between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains.
What are the Great Plains?
These tall carvings are made from cedar trees and show the faces of birds, animals or people. They are used by Northwest Native tribes to guard their homes and villages.
What are totem poles?
These people moved West to find gold in the Gold Rush.
Who are the 49ers?
These people moved out West in groups to settle land and make new communities.
Who are the homesteaders? or What was a Wagon Train?
Who were Lewis and Clark?
This word means "broken stuff" that a tornado carries along and then also leaves behind.
What is "debris"?
This item was hung over a baby's bed to make sure bad dreams were caught and the baby only had good dreams.
What is a dream catcher?
This city in California grew from 1,000 people to 25,000 in a year during the Gold Rush.
What is San Francisco?
This was a huge movement of people to California and all over the West in search of riches.
What is the Gold Rush?
She served as a translator and guide to Lewis and Clark and their Expedition.
Tho is Sacagawea?
Tornadoes make this shape, and it adds to their destructiveness.
What is vortex, cone or funnel?
This tribe of the Southwest deserts made homes and villages out of adobe bricks.
Who were the Pueblo?
This state has the largest population in the whole USA, mostly because people chose to stay after coming for the Gold Rush.
What is California?
This is considered the end of Western Expansion because now America stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?