Louisiana Purchase
Motivations for Expansion
So This is Why Indigenous People Hate Us
Westward Bound
Random
100
Name three states that were part of the Louisiana Purchase.
Louisiana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming, Missouri
100
Population growth is a reason for expansion. Before we moved west, there were only two cities with over 100,000 people. What were those cities?
New York and Philadelphia
100
Name one tribe that was impacted by the Indian Relocation Act. (+100 for each additional tribe).
Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Pawnee, Kickapoo
100
What is the name of the trail most settlers took to get to the west?
Oregon Trail
100
Who was the native woman that helped Lewis and Clark?
Sacajawea
200
When was the purchase signed? Who signed it?
1803, President Jefferson
200
Part of the reason we took Texas/Mexican Cession/Gadsden Purchase and Oregon Territory was for security based reasons. What TWO nations were we feuding with over those territories?
Mexico and Great Britain
200
What was the name of the path that exiled natives took to get to the Oklahoma region.
Trail of Tears
200
What three mediums of transportation really had a boom during this era?
Road, steamboat, railroad
200
Who was the leader of the Texan forces during the Texan War of Independence? (Hint: a city is named after him)
Sam Houston
300
Who were the first two people to explore the LP? (+300 for first names)
Meriweather Lewis and William Clark
300
Economics is a huge reason for expansion. What economic reason did we have for the Indian Relocation Act (as in, why did we want their land so bad?)
Access to cotton fields and soil rich rields
300
What did the Indian Removal Act say? Who signed it?
The IRA said that native land could be exchanged for land out west. Jackson signed it.
300
What was the name of the mountain man responsible for carving out some of the initial trails to the west, as well as becoming an integral part of the government in Oregon?
Joe Meek
300
Who was the leader of the Mexican forces during our multiple conflicts with them?
Santa Anna
400
How much did the LP cost? (1804 dollars and 2012 dollars)
15 million/233 million
400
Why did we want to fight Santa Anna to try to claim Texas for ourselves?
Because he was treating the people of Texas unfairly, and they wanted to leave the government in Mexico City
400
Narcissa Whitman was a young woman who went out west to try to convert native america tribes. Where did she go? (Bonus if you can name what happened to her).
Oregon Country, killed by the Cayuse
400
Explain Manifest Destiny. Must have all parts.
That it was the destiny of America, ordained by God, to move West, and to shape America in our image.
400
Name five states that were admitted to the Union during the era of Westward Expansion.
Indiana, Mississippi, Illinois, Alabama, Maine, Missouri, Arkansas, Michigan, Florida, Texas, Iowa, Wisconsin, California
500
The original cost of the LP was 11.25 million. Why did we pay the extra money?
To settle debts from the Revolutionary War.
500
What two tracts of land were crucial to realizing our dreams of coast to coast railroad? (They were given in presentations)
The Gadsden Purchase and Mexican Cession
500
Name two reasons why our relations with native groups was poor. (+500 if you can name a tribe that was impacted by Mexican Cession, Texas Annexation, or Oregon Country).
Spread of disease, missionaries, land being taken, forceful removal, treated like inferiors, shot at by whites. Bonus: Nez Perce, Apache, Arapaho, Cayuse, Sioux, Blackfeet, Shoshone, Tejano, etc.
500
By the time the Civil War starts, America has all the land that it has today, with the exception of two states/territories. What are those two states?
Hawaii/Alaska. IMPORTANT: Although we had all the land we would have minus these two states, not all states were in place yet.
500
What was the name of the first major canal we built to accomodate boat travel?
Erie Canal
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