Go West!
Many immigrants and pioneers traveled West to participate in this event in California.
What was the gold rush?
These are large farms located in the South. They were where slaves worked and lived.
What are plantations?
This American pioneer was known for leading the Mormons out to Salt Lake City.
Who is Brigham Young?
Indian Territory, where the Native Americans were forced to resettle, is now known as this state.
What is Oklahoma?
This was the idea many Americans believed that the United States was meant to span from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
What was Manifest Destiny?
This trail is one of the most famous trails of Westward Expansion.
What is the Oregon Trail?
These were the two major crops grown in the South during the time of Westward Expansion.
What are cotton and tobacco?
This president signed the Indian Removal Act into law.
Who was Andrew Jackson?
This act passed by Congress led to the Native Americans having to give up their land.
What was the Indian Removal Act?
This president was in charge of the Louisiana Purchase.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
Name at least two obstacles pioneers faced along their journey.
What are lack of supplies, needing to hunt for food, broken down wagons, etc.?
The North's economy was ______________ and so they did not need to rely on slavery.
What was diverse?
These two American pioneers led the Corps of Discovery on their journey West.
Who were Lewis and Clark?
This was the name of the trail on which many Native Americans died when forced to go West.
What was the Trail of Tears?
This purchase helped the United States double in size over night.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This group of people headed West to escape slavery.
Who are the African American pioneers?
This is what the North did to slavery, leading to the most major difference between the North and the South in the 1800s.
What was abolish?
This person claims to have found the first piece of gold in California.
Who was James Marshall?
This famous Native American led the forces that joined Britain in the War of 1812.
Who was Tecumseh?
This doctrine was a result of the War of 1812 and growing nationalism in the United States
What was the Monroe Doctrine?
This invention made travel to the West much more efficient and ended the need for wagon trains and trails.
What was the Transcontinental Railroad?
This compromise kept the balance of power in Congress. It admitted Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This American pioneer led the charge to build the Wilderness Road.
Who is Daniel Boone?
This famous Native American helped guide the Corps of Discovery through unknown lands.
Who was Sacagawea?
This was the last piece of land acquired by the United States in 1853. It is a small piece of land located near present day Arizona.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?