The Louisians Territory
The United States purchased the Louisiana Territory for $15 million from this country.
What is France?
Texans fought against an army from this country at the Alamo.
What is Mexico?
This is what the people who went to search for gold were called.
What are "Forty Niners"?
Immigrants from this country found work on the transcontinental railroad after the gold rush.
What is China?
Pioneers on the Oregon trail traveled in this type of vehicle.
What were covered wagons?
The Louisiana Territory included the land between these two locations. (Hint: One is a river, one is a mountain range)
What are the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains?
The Alamo is located in this city in Texas?
Where is San Antonio?
The state where gold was discovered that started the Gold Rush.
What is California?
The Union Pacific railroad company traveled west from this city.
Where is Omaha, Nebraska?
This phrase refers to the belief that Americans had a natural right to spread their religion, government, and ways of life westward across North America to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Lewis and Clark's goal was to find a Northwest Passage to this location.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
The leader of the opposing army during the battle at the Alamo.
Who was Santa Anna?
Immigrants from this country came to America in search of the "Gold Mountain."
What is China?
This President signed the Pacific Railway Act, which offered incentives for men to assist in building the transcontinental railroad.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
In 1882, Congress passed this act which kept immigrants from a certain country from entering the United States.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
The number of men Lewis and Clark brought with them on their journey
What is 40?
The Alamo was this type of building.
What is a mission?
The structures miners lived in.
What are tents or shanties?
This railroad company traveled east from Sacramento, California.
What was the Central Pacific railroad company?
This tribe of Native Americans was forced to march along the Trail of Tears.
What are the Cherokee?
President Jefferson asked Lewis and Clark to take notes on these things during their expedition. (Name at least two).
What are soil, plants, animals, American Indian Tribes, and locations for trading posts and settlements?
The battle at the Alamo lasted this long.
What is 10 days?
The rectangular tool that people used to pan for gold.
What is a sluice box?
The Golden Spike Ceremony in 1869 celebrated the completion of the transcontinental railroad and took place in this state.
Where is Utah?
The Native Americans who marched the Trail of Tears were headed toward reservations in this state.
Where is Oklahoma?