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States
Mystery
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Mystery
100
1803
What is the year that Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Purchase from France?
100
Led to the Mexican/American War
What is the Texas Annexation?
100
Southwestern travelers used this and it helped pioneers to move westward
What is the Sante Fe Trail
100
Men and women who demanded the immediate freeing of slaves
Who are abolitionists?
100
Led settlers to the Willamette Valley between 1840 to 1848
What is the Oregon Trail?
200
1848
What is the year that the United States purchased the Gadsden Purchase from Mexico?
200
This state was part of the Mexican Cession after the Mexican War
What is California?
200
The president of the United States between 1829-1837. He played a prominent role in Westward Expansion
Who is Andrew Jackson?
200
It increased the productivity of the American farmer
What is a reaper?
200
The two tracks that were joined together at Promontory Point, Utah.
What is the Union and Central Pacific?
300
1819
What is the year that Spain gave Florida to the United States?
300
Divided with Great Britain in which Britain got British Columbia
What is Oregon Country
300
Granted Jackson the funding and authority to accomplish his goal of rejecting the Native Americans from East of the Mississippi River
What is the Indian Removal Act of 1830
300
He was the abolitionist leader who believed that slavery was immoral and demanded that slaves be immediately freed
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
300
Completed on May 10, 1869 and it rapidly affected the ease of Western settlement
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
400
1836
What was the year that Texas broke from Mexico and gained its independence?
400
In 1848 Mexico gave up California in this treaty
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?
400
It ceded all Cherokee land for 5.6 million dollars and free transportation West
What is the Treaty of Echota?
400
The movement that was led by strong women who began their campaign before the Civil War and continued after the war ended
What is the Suffrage Movement?
400
The discovery of gold nuggets in the Sacramento Valley in 1848 sparked this.
What is the California Gold Rush?
500
1830
What is the year that Andrew Jackson passed the Indian Removal Act?
500
Purchased from Mexico in 1853 because the United States thought that they would build a transcontinental railroad there
What is The Gadsden Purchase?
500
Became a symbol for the harsh treatment of Native Americans at the hands of the federal government
What is the Trail of Tears?
500
Was at its peak from 1867 until the early 1880's
What is the Cattle Industry?
500
In 1849, these pioneers left their homes and families in search for economic opportunity out West
Who are the 49ers?
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