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Which President asked Lewis and Clark to explore Louisiana and the West in the early 1800's?
President Jefferson
Mexican troops attack the ____ Mission killing all but two Texans. This spurs the Texans on in the Texas Revolution.
What rush caused the biggest push to go west?
Gold Rush
What animal was almost completely wiped out by settlers shooting them for sport insensibly?
Buffalo
What explorers commissioned by Jefferson reached the Pacific Ocean?
Lewis and Clark
What purchase allowed the beginning on westward expansion (hint it was purchased from France)
Louisiana Purchase
Jackson as an Army General goes into Florida to fight what tribe
What was the Abolitionists Movement
A movement to end slavery all around the United States
The biggest mode of transportation in the US in the 1800's that connected the country?
Transcontinental Railroad.
The Idea that the United States borders should be from "Sea to Shining Sea"
Manifest Destiny
This territory in the Northwest was argued between the United States, Britain, and to a lesser extent Russia and Spain early on
What is the Oregon Territory
A war fought over the rights to Texas. After the war, the United States paid Mexico $15 million for land that would later become California, Texas, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and parts of several other states.
Mexican-American War
What importance did the Mississippi River have to Americans
Transportation and Economic Importance...the movement of Goods for Trade
This group of people worked on the Railroads but were not featured in any of the pictures or given credit
Who are "Chinese Migrants" or "Chinese Railroad Workers"
What President removed Native Americans by force in the Southern States of Georgia, Alabama, Florida and Mississippi
Andrew Jackson
The U.S. government offers up free land to farmers who agree to live on the land for five years and make improvements to the land. Many people rush to places like Oklahoma to claim their land. What was this Act called?
Homestead Act
The Cherokee nation was subject to a brutal mass migration that came to be known as the
What was the Bleeding Kansas Event
Pro Slavery forces from Missouri invade Kansas as they want it to be a Slave State
What invention allowed Cotton to be picked more efficiently and rapidly thus increasing the importance of Slaves in the South and West
The Cotton Gin
Name a trail that used covered wagons to go West
The Oregon Trail
or the Santa Fe Trail
What were the conditions that the Mexican Government put on White Settlers moving into Tejas and Coahuila
They had to learn English
They should convert to Catholicism
They should not bring Slavery with them
What was the Underground Railroad?
A land or sea route used by Slaves to Escape Slavery