Events to Remember
_________ wrote the Star Spangled Banner.
Who is Francis Scott Key?
A route from east to west for settlers to use that were looking for farmland.
What is the Oregon Trail?
__________ and ____________ were hired by Thomas Jefferson to explore the new lands of the Louisiana Purchase territory.
Who is Meriwether Lewis and William Clark?
In 1839 _______ was first discovered in California.
What is gold?
The Batte of the Alamo was where _________ ________ led 1,800 Mexican troops and killed 200 Texas soldiers.
Who is Santa Anna?
The ________ were responsible for the burning o the White House and Capitol.
Who are the British?
An area of land set aside for Native Americans.
What is a reservation?
__________ purchased the Louisiana Territory for the United States.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
A town that grew up very quickly after a miner found gold there.
What is a boomtown?
Westward expansion led to the ________________.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
The White House and the Capitol were burned in ___________ for the American attack on the city of York in Ontario, Canada.
What is retaliation?
A journey that Native Americans were forced to make to reach Indian territory.
What was the Trail of Tears?
The ___________ ___________ was important for the United States because the New Orlean's port was important for America's trading with other countries.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
What is 300,000?
These are causes of
American sailors were being made to serve in the British military.
Great Britain supported the Native Americans that attacked settlers.
Great Britain tried to stop America from trading with France.
What is the War of 1812?
Illnssed like Cholera, deadly wagon accidents, and harsh weather conditions.
What is challenges settlers faced?
___________ passed the Indian Removal Act.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
________________ helped Lewis and Clark by:
serving as a translator to communicate with Native Americans, negotiating with Native Americans to demonstrate a peacful mission, and helped navigate through difficult lands.
Who is Sacagawea?
In _______ Texas declared it independence from Mexico.
What is 1836?
When groups discovered gold they forced Native Americans off their land.
Tensions between the two groups rose with the discovery of gold.
When the Native Americans failed to move to reservations the battle began.
What is reasons for the Battle of Little Bighorn?
To honor the American flag burning after the battle at Fort McHenry.
What is the reason the Star Spangled Banner was written?
These are reasons that ____________ were forced to relocate.
Native Americans were thought to be hostile and dangerous.
American settlers wanted the lands and needed the natives to leave.
Andrew Jackson passed the Indian Removal Act.
What is Native Americans?
Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark to accomplish this expedition to ________ all the way to the ________ ___________ for trading purposes.
What is to explore and the Pacific Ocean?
What is the Forty-Niners?
American sailors were being impressed into British service.
Great Britain supported the Native Americans that attacked settlers.
Great Britain tried to stop America from trading with France.
What is causes of the War of 1812?