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What is the state Lewis and Clark started from?
Kentucky
What was the name of Sacagawea's baby?
Jean Baptiste
What state did oregan end in?
Oregan
What was the nickname for the Missouri river?
big muddy
What caused thousands of people to move west?
California Gold Rush
What was the name of the tribe that Lewis and Clark spent the winter at?
Mandan
Who was the president during corps expedition?
Thomas Jefferson
What did they call a pioneers wagon on the Oregon trail?
prairie schooners
What did Sacagawea do for the corps of discovery?
interpreter and guide
What purchase by Thomas Jefferson opened up the west?
Louisiana purchase
When did Texas become a state?
1845
What was Clark's slave called [his name]?
ork
How long was the Oregon trail?
2000 miles
What type of boat did lewis and clark use to go up the Missouri river?
keel boat
What year was the Mexican American war?[when did it start when did it end]
1846-1847
What 3 states meet at the Cumberland Gap?
Tennessee ,Virginia,Kentucky
What group of people did the Westward expansion have a negative effect on?
Native Americans
What state did the oregon trail begin?
Missouri
What was the most common disease on the oregon trail?
desintary
What was the last spike that they drove into the ground to finish the first transcontinental railroad?
the Golden Spike
What was the first state settled west of the Appalachian mountains?
Kentucky
What was the name of lewis and Clark's dog?
Seaman
What was the main causes of death on the oregon trail?
illness,drowned,gunshot,wagon incident
How much money was spent on the Lewis and Clark expedition?
50000
What act allowed up to 160 acres of land per claim?
the Homestead Act