Important People
I am the Shoshone who helped Lewis and Clark on their expedition.
Sacagawea
What was the purpose of the Missouri compromise and letting Maine come in as a free state?
Kept the balance of free and slave representatives in the senate.
The United States fought this country in the war of 1812.
Great Britain
This means of transportation was a way to connect the new west and the east.
I wrote the poem after witnessing the Battle at Fort McHenry that later became the National Anthem.
Francis Scott Key
This stated that the US would stay out of foreign affairs and closed the Americans to further colonization.
The Monroe Doctrine
This man led the Texans to victory against Mexico which led to Texas becoming the Lone Star Republic.
General Sam Houston
What is the term for expansion in the US that American's believed they had the right to expand from "sea to shining sea?"
Manifest Destiny
I am the President who favored the removal of the Cherokee Natives and ignored the Chief Justice's Supreme Court order to allow the Natives to stay in their home land.
President Andrew Jackson
This is the treaty that ended the war of 1812.
The treaty of Ghent
One of the major causes of the war of 1812 was...
1. The impressment of United States citizens
2. Interference with American shipping
3. British support of Native American Resistance
These two states were added to the Union because of the Missouri Compromise.
Missouri and Maine
I am the man who sold the land to the United States that doubled the amount of land they already owned.
Napoleon Bonaparte
President Jackson had this passed by congress in 1830 which removed Native Americans from their home land.
The Indian Removal Act
This is the battle that Andrew Jackson fought in after the Treaty of Ghent was signed where he defeated British troops.
Battle of New Orleans
This was the nickname for people who moved out west to California in search of gold.
Miner forty-niners
I believed that the political and social suture of the US was through agriculture instead of industry.
Thomas Jefferson
This is the treaty that ended the war with Mexico and gave the land of California to the United States.
The treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Alamo
Who was the president who ran as an expansionist and the concept of manifest destiny?
James Polk