Early Life on the Frontier
the edge of a country or settled region
What is the frontier?
Daniel Boone is often called a hunter and ________.
What is a pioneer?
This was the largest port in Lousiana
What is New Orleans?
This United States president sent Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on an expedition to explore the west.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
These two countries were at war in 1808 when James Madison became president of the United States.
Who are Britain and France?
These people had already settled in the frontier west of the Appalachian Mountains.
Who are the American Indians?
this is one of the first of a group of people to enter a region.
What is a pioneer?
Who is Napoleon Bonaporte?
These are the 2 other very important people on the expedition with Lewis and Clark.
Who are York and Sacagawea?
This was when Brittish officers captured American Sailors and forced them into the Brittish navy.
what is impressment?
This was often easier than traveling by foot or wagon on the bad roads and difficult terrain.
What is floating on rivers?
This is the name of the passage that went through the Appalachian Mountains in Virginia.
What is the Cumberland Gap.
Napoleon agreed to sell the Louisiana Territory to the United States for this amount of money.
What is $15,000,000.00?
This is the name of the group of people traveling with Lewis and Clark.
What is the Corps of Discovery?
American Indians joined forces with this country in an attempt to keep settlers off of their land.
Who are the Brittish?
These were often used to float families, supplies, and animals down the Ohio River.
What are Flatboats?
This road ran 200 miles west and went through the Cumberland Gap.
What is the Wilderness Road.
This is the reason the French offered to sell the Louisana Territory.
France needed money for the upcoming war with Great Britain.
The Corps of Discovery traveled up the Missouri River, Over the Rocky Mountains, and down the Colombia River to the _______ Ocean.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Name the 3 goals the United States had for the War of 1812
1. Stop Impressment
2. Keep the British from helping the American Indians.
3. Drive the British out of Canada.
This was the most traveled River during the early stages of the Westward Expansion.
What is the Ohio River?
After crossing the Appalachian Mountains through the Wilderness Road, settlers started towns in this present-day state.
What is Kentucky?
The Louisiana Purchase added this many square miles to the United States.
What is 828,000?
1. Gather information about landforms, plants, animals, and climates of the west.
2. Study the cultures of the American Indians in the west.
4. Find a direct water route to the Pacific Ocean.
3. Explore the Missouri & Columbia Rivers.
What is the Treaty of Ghent?