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Name That Dude
Westward Bound
Manifest Destiny
Check the Map
100
A road the user must pay a toll or fee to use.
What is a turnpike?
100
invented the cotton gin and interchangeable parts
Who is Eli Whitney?
100
A person who rushed to California in hopes of striking it rich in 1849?
What is a forty-niner?
100
The 850 mile route that many Cherokees died walking in their forced move from Georgia to Indian Territory (Oklahoma).
What is Trail of Tears?
100
Purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million. Doubled the size of the United States.
What is Louisiana Territory?
200
People who take the law into their own hands.
What are vigilantes?
200
Seminole leader that led a guerrilla war against American forces in Florida.
Who is Osceola?
200
What new "machine" separated the seeds from cotton fibers, led to an increase in cotton production, and increased the demand for slave labor?
What is cotton gin?
200
Group that traveled west to the Great Salt Lake in Utah seeking religious freedom.
What is Mormons?
200
Won independence from Britain in the American Revolutionary War in 1783. Later, defeated Britain in the War of 1812.
What is the United States in 1800?
300
To add a territory to one's own territory.
What is annex?
300
He started a war with Mexico to gain California and the Southwest.
Who is President James K. Polk?
300
The popular idea in the United States during the 1800s that the country must expand its boundaries to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
300
A new form of transportation that made river travel easier and led to the development of cities such as Cincinnati and St. Louis.
What is steamboat?
300
Was annexed to the United States in 1845.
What is Texas?
400
loyalty to a region
What is sectionalism?
400
President, supported the removal of the Five Civilized Tribes to Indian Territory.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
400
The deal in Congress that allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
400
A General who became the President of Mexico. Was defeated and captured by the Texans at the Battle of San Jacinto.
Who is Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna?
400
Gained in a treaty with Britain in 1846. Land south of the 49th parallel.
What is Oregon Country?
500
an economic system based on private property and free enterprise
What is capitalism?
500
General who helped Texan forces defeat Mexico and secure their independence. First President of the Republic of Texas.
Who is Sam Houston?
500
The first to come to Oregon. Trapped beaver and traded goods.
What is mountain men?
500
The Five Civilized Tribes of the Southeast.
What is Cherokee, Chocktaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole
500
Land ceded from Mexico to the United States in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1846. Includes California and the SW.
What is Mexican Cession?
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