Trail of Tears
The finding of this metal, led to the removal of the Cherokee in Georgia.
What is gold?
The name of the group of people that went out west to dig for gold (not the football team ;) ).
Who are the 49ers?
The country America was fighting during the War of 1812.
What is Britain?
The famous Shoshone woman who helped Lewis & Clark on their expedition
Who is Sacagawea?
The name of the land buy that more than DOUBLED the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This president approved the Indian Removal Act which lead to the Trail of Tears.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
The people who made the most money from the California gold rush.
Who are merchants (or shop owners)?
This person saved key artifacts from the White House before it was burned down.
Who is Dolly Madison?
The land that Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark to explore
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This river was the Western boundary for the Louisiana Purchase.
What is the Mississippi River?
The name of the 5 "Civilized" Tribes that were affected by the Trail of Tears
Who are the 1. Cherokee, 2. Creek, 3. Seminoles, 4. Chickasaw, and 5. Choctaw?
These towns were sprung up wherever gold was found.
What is a mining town?
This famous song was written by Francis Scott Key during the War of 1812
What is the Star-Spangled Banner or our National Anthem?
This was one of the goals of Lewis and Clark's expedition (think about water)!!!
What is finding a water route to the Pacific Ocean?
This battle the Native Americans won. A year later, the Americans came back and took the Native Americans' land.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
This word means "modern-day jail" that many Native Americans were put in for refusing to go out West.
What are stockades?
The first person to find gold that led to the California Gold Rush
Who is James W. Marshall?
The stop of trade between America and the French and Great Britain, which increased tensions for the War of 1812.
What is an embargo?
The amount of present-day states the expedition went through.
What is 10 present day states?
This trail allowed for travelers to travel west by foot and wagons, instead of traveling west by sea.
What is the Oregon Trail?
This treaty was signed by a SMALL group of Cherokee that ceded all Cherokee lands to white settlers, despite MAJORITY of the Cherokee being against it.
What is the Treaty of New Echota?
The location of where gold was first found that led to the California Gold Rush.
What is Sutter's Mill?
This word describes the British Navy taking men from American ships to serve in the British Navy, which caused America to go to war with Britain.
What is impressment?
The famous French-Canadian fur trapper that went on the expedition
Who is Charbonneau?
First Name: Touissant
This was the name of the famous Mexican Dictator who won the Battle of the Alamo but lost the Mexican-American War.
Who is Santa Anna?