Lewis and Clark
The President who purchased the Louisiana Territory from France.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Three states that were created from what was once the Oregon Territory.
What are Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.
The name of this mission where Texans were killed by Mexican solders became the battle cry, "Remember the ________________!"
What is the Alamo?
The year that people rushed to California because of the discovery of gold.
What is 1849?
Lewis and Clark's Shoshone guide and interpreter.
Who was Sacajawea?
The prairies of the Great Plains were grasslands, waving in the wind, such that it looked like the waves of an ocean; therefore, covered wagons were sometimes referred to as this 2-word term that referred to a ship.
What are prairie schooners?
The city in Texas named for the leader of the Texas army that finally defeated the Mexicans under Santa Anna.
What is Houston?
The mountain range where gold was originally discovered near Sutter's mill.
What is the Sierra Nevada?
The mountain range that stood in the way of a water passage to the Pacific Ocean from the Midwest.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
Term for a line of wagons heading west on several trails, including the Oregon Trail.
What are wagon trains?
The number of years Texas was an independent nation.
What is 9?
Miners with limited resources would use a tin dinner plate or pie tin to scoop up sand and gravel from the bottom of a stream, and swish the water out, searching the bottom of the dish for the heavier gold dust and nuggets; this process came to be known as...
What is "panning for gold"?
The river that empties into the Mississippi near St. Louis that Lewis and Clark followed and explored.
What is the Missouri River?
This term describes places in the Rocky Mountains where streams and rivers flowing to the east drain into the Mississippi, and ultimately, the Atlantic Ocean, and rivers flowing west drain into the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Continental Divide?
The famous frontiersman who died at the Alamo and whose hunting knife is still known by his name today?
Who was Jim Bowie?
The capital of California, which was the gateway to the gold region.
What is Sacramento?
The amount the United States paid for the Louisiana Purchase that amounted to less than 3 cents per acre.
What is $15 million?
The town that marked the beginning of the Oregon Trail.
What is Independence, Missouri?
The year Texas became part of the United States, leading to a war with Mexico that won California for the U.S.
What is 1845?
So many people rushed to the California territory to find gold, that it quickly had a large enough population to petition for statehood; this is the year California became a state.
What is 1850?