Land Acquisitions
Purchased in 1803, this acquisition doubled the size of the U.S.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Name of the expedition
What was the Corps of Discovery?
Identify one of the tribes that was relocated
Who are the Cherokee, Choctwa, Chickasaw, Creek and Seminole?
The cause of the wars
What is Land or control of the Great Plains?
America's future was to expand the country all the way to the Pacific due to a religious belief in growth
What is Manifest Destiny?
Independent territory (formerly part of Mexico) added to the U.S.
What is Texas Annexation?
Animal that attacked Lewis
What is a Grizzly Bear?
President that signed the Indian Removal Act
Who is Andrew Jackson?
Tribal members participate in Ghost Dance and government tries to stop them
What is Wounded Knee?
Animal nearly killed to extinction
What is the Bison or Buffalo?
This land was given to the U.S. by the British and later annexed
What is the Oregon Country/Territory?
Native American woman who helped Lewis & Clark
Who is Sacagawea?
Forced tribes off of their native lands and onto Reservations West of the Mississippi
U.S. betrays Cheyenne and Arapahoe tribes by attacking them where they told them to hunt
What is the Sand Creek Massacre?
Thousands of people flock to California to "strike" rich
What is the Gold Rush?
U.S. gained this land after winning the Mexican-American War
What is Mexican Cession?
One accomplishment of the expedition
What is mapping the NW, or discovering new animals and plant species, or observing Native American customs?
The Five Civilized Tribes new home land
What are the Unassigned Lands, OK?
What is the Fetterman Fight?
Settlers traveled this road by ox and covered wagon to find fertile farm land
What is the Oregon Trail?
The U.S. purchased this land from Mexico in order to continue building the Transcontinental R.R. in the Southwestern part of the country.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
The river that Lewis & Clark used to reach the Pacific
What is the Columbia?
The branch of government that said the Indian Removal Act should not happen.
What is the Supreme Court?
Native Americans attack soldiers in the valleys of Montana, leaving no survivors
What is Battle at Little Bighorn?
Native American children were sent away to boarding schools and had their cultural identities changed
What is Assimilation/Americanization
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