Oregon Trail
The people on the Oregon Trail traveled by what?
What is a wagon or by foot?
Who was the president that purchased the land.?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
What was the trail the natives were forced to take called?
The trail of tears.
Explain Manifest Destiny.
What is the belief that America should expand its limits?
How much land was gained by the USA in the war?
What is 525,000 square miles?
Name three hardships the people faced while traveling
What are disease, weather, rivers, mountains, accidents, and Native Americans, lack of food, lack of water?
What Country did the USA purchase Louisiana from?
What is France?
What were 3 hardships did America put on the native Americans through the trail of tears?
What is not enough food, Walking, fake promises, not enough water?
Who was the important writer who wrote about Manifest Destiny
John O’Sullivan
What did America winning this war lead into?
What is the Gold Rush?
What was the wagon train that took the trail that was forced to eat one another?
What is the Donner Party?
How much did the US purchase Louisiana for?
What is 15 Million?
What is the name given to the pieces of land that Native Americans were forced to live on once they were removed from their own land?
Reservations
This was the type of wagon that Americans used to cross the West.
Conestoga Wagon
The amount of money the U.S. paid Mexico in exchange for land from 1848-1853.
What is $25 million?
Pioneers made an impact on the Native Americans. Name two ways this happened.
What is trading, diseases, and forcing them off their land?
The year the land was purchased?
What is 1803?
What did America think of the natives?
Usless dangerous people that should have no right?
This religious group was forced West by persecution.
The Mormons
What states were added to the USA? List three
All: California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, most of Arizona and Colorado, and parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Wyoming?
Perhaps the biggest problem on the Trail was a mysterious and deadly disease for which there was no cure. Often, an emigrant would go from healthy to dead in just a few hours.
What is cholera?
During the time of the Louisiana Purchase, the United States still had trouble with what country was trying to claim part of North America.
What is Great Britain?
How many Native Americans were killed on the trail that they were forcefully made to take?
This painting symbolized what Americans envisioned as their Manifest Destiny.
American Progress by John Gast
How many days did they fight in San Antonio?
13 Days