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Movement
Transportation
Native Americans
So What?
100
Alaska
What is the state whose land was purchased from Russia?
100
The California Gold Rush
What is one reason people moved to California?
100
Covered wagon
What is one method of transportation used to travel the Oregon Trail?
100
The Cherokee
What is the Native American tribe that traveled the Trail of Tears?
100
The U.S. gained land for farming and settling.
What were the benefits of Westward Expansion?
200
California and the Southwest states
What is the land the U.S. won in the Mexican-American War?
200
The Oregon and Santa Fe Trails
What are two of the pathways people traveled to get West?
200
The Erie Canal
What is the man-made waterway that led from the Hudson River to Lake Erie?
200
Chief Joseph
Who is the leader of the Nez Perce?
200
These people lost a lot of land because of the expansion of the U.S.
Who are the Native Americans?
300
The Indian Removal Act
What is one way in which the U.S. government claimed Native American lands?
300
160 acres of land
What is one thing that the U.S. government promised people to get them to move West?
300
Children and the elderly
Who were the people who could ride in the wagons on the Oregon Trail?
300
The Dawes Act
What is the act that attempted to force Native Americans to assimilate into American society?
300
The Mexican-American War, the war for Texas Independence, battles between the U.S. government and Native Americans...
What are the wars that were fought in order for the U.S. to gain land?
400
The US-Canada Border
What is the line that was established that gave Oregon's land to the U.S.?
400
Good soil for farming
What is one reason people moved to Oregon?
400
The Mississippi River
What is the important body of water that came with the Louisiana Purchase?
400
The Indian Removal Act
What is the act that forced Native Americans off of their land and onto "reservations"?
400
The Erie Canal and The Transcontinental Railroad
What are two new technologies that helped with Westward Expansion?
500
Thomas Jefferson
Who was the president who purchased "Louisiana"?
500
Manifest Destiny
What religious belief led U.S. citizens to believe they had the right to move West?
500
The Transcontinental Railroad
What was the first transportation route to cross the entire country?
500
Oklahoma
What is where the Cherokee were moved to on the Trail of Tears?
500
The Gadsden Purchase
What is the final purchase made to establish the present size of the U.S. mainland?
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