💰Louisiana Purchase
The United States bought the Louisiana Territory from this country.
What is France?
The Erie Canal runs through this U.S. state.
What is New York?
Andrew Jackson was this number president.
What is the 7th?
This present-day U.S. state rebelled from Mexico in 1835.
What is Texas?
This term refers to a man-made waterway.
What is a canal?
He was the president when the United States bought the Louisiana Territory.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The Erie Canal connected Lake Erie to this river.
What is the Hudson River?
Andrew Jackson expanded voting rights for this group.
What is white men?
"Remember the ________" became a rallying cry for rebels during the Texas Revolution.
What is the Alamo?
This term means the right to vote.
What is suffrage?
This important port city was the main thing the United States wanted in the deal.
What is New Orleans?
This group of immigrants was essential in helping build the Erie Canal.
Who are Irish immigrants?
Jackson signed this act in 1830, which allowed the government to remove Native Americans from their land.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This state was acquired during the Mexican-American War, and when gold was found there many people migrated to this state.
What is California?
This term means to add territory, usually by force.
What is annex?
The United States spent this amount of money to purchase the Louisiana Territory.
What is $15 million?
The Erie Canal took this many years to build.
What is 8 years?
This was the forced march of thousands of Cherokee people from their homes.
What is the Trail of Tears?
He was president during the Mexican-American War, and supported expansion in the United States.
Who is James K. Polk?
This term means to give up something, usually land or power.
What is cede?
These two explorers were sent to explore the newly bought Louisiana Territory?
Who are Meriwether Lewis & William Clark?
This religious group used the canal to seek religious freedom.
Who are the Mormons?
Cherokee people were forced to move from Georgia to his present-day state west of the Mississippi.
What is Oklahoma?
This treaty ended the Mexican-American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?
This was the belief that the United States was destined to get all the land from coast to coast.
What is Manifest Destiny?