What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Name one region of the 13 colonies
New England, Middle, or Southern
What were the two main countries in the war of 1812?
United States and Britan
What is the Oregon Trail?
The most popular route that people took to settle in the West. Ended in Oregon.
What is Westward Expansion?
The United States desire to expand land to the West after gaining independence from Britan
What is the name of the Native American woman who helped Lewis and Clark on their exploration?
Sacagawea
What is a colony?
Areas of land that are controlled by a foreign country
How did the war of 1812 end?
How did people travel the Oregon trail?
By wagon
Who are the fourty-niners?
The people who arrived in California to mine gold in 1849.
Why did some people not want the Louisiana purchase to happen?
They feared it would start a war with Spain
United States, Africa, or Europe
What is the Indian Removal Act?
The United States' act stating that they could force Native Americans to move away from their homeland
Name a danger of the Oregon trail (think of the game you played yesterday)
Starvation, dehydration, disease, freezing temperatures
What is another name we use for the war of 1812?
The second war of independence
What was one challenge of Lewis and Clark's journey? Think of the scenes we acted out...
Traveling the Rocky mountains, reaching the pacific ocean, freezing temperatures, walking 15-20 miles a day by foot
Name one of the 13 colonies. Think of the 13 colonies rap...
Massachusetts, , Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina, and North Carolina
What is the trail of tears?
The long, difficult journey that Native Americans had to make to move away from their homes
What is the California Gold rush?
Why is it called the triangular slave trade?
Because the slaves were traded between three areas of the world, forming a triangle
Who are Lewis and Clark?
What is the middle passage (triangular slave trade)?
The most brutal part of the triangular slave trade where slaves were packed on to ships in horrible conditions (many starving or dying of disease)
Why did the United States make Native Americans leave their homes?
They wanted all of the land, gold, and money for themselves
What is Boomtown?
The town in California where many of the gold miners lived
Who was the president during the Louisiana purchase?
Thomas Jefferson