The Louisiana Purchase
The area of land that Thomas Jefferson Purchased from France
What is the Louisiana Territory?
The group of explorers that mapped the Louisiana Territory
What is the Corps of Discovery?
Incentive for pioneers to settle in the Oregon Territory
What is free land?
This is the job of a pony express rider
What is delivering mail across the country?
This is the name of mining camps that quickly grew into towns
What are boomtowns?
The price that Jefferson paid in the Louisiana Purchase
What is $15 million?
The woman who helped the Lewis and Clark expedition
Who is Sacagawea?
The way the pioneers traveled
What is a covered wagon?
This is how mail was delivered before the invention of the pony express (2 parts)
What are train and stagecoach?
This is the name given to those who flooded into California in search of gold
What is a forty-niner?
The reason that access to the port of New Orleans was important
What is control of trade on the Mississippi River?
Where Lewis and Clark began their expedition
What is the Missouri River?
The length of the journey for pioneer families
What is 6 months?
This invention replaced the pony express
What is the telegraph?
This is the name of the man who first discovered gold in California while building a sawmill
Who is James Marshall?
The reason the French president wanted to sell the entire Louisiana Territory
What are war costs?
Sacagawea's husband
The mountain range that settlers had to cross to make it to Oregon
What are the Rocky Mountains?
These are qualities sought after in men to work for the pony express (2 parts)
What are young and lightweight?
This is the year the gold rush began
What is 1848?
The Louisiana Territory's border to the west
What are the Rocky Mountains?
Two struggles that Lewis and Clark's group faced
What are dangerous waters/harsh weather/hunger/sickness?
The year that fur traders discovered a trail that lead through the Rocky Mountains
What is 1824?
This is how much pony express riders were paid each week
What is $25?
This is the method used to separate gold from dirt and gravel
What is panning?