Trails West
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What is Shafer?
This is a famous number sequence that should have died in 2025.
What is 67?
This stands for responsibility.
What is "R" in SHAFER?
This is what feeds failure.
What is giving someone the answer?
I have hands but cannot clap.
What is a clock?
This famous trail stretched from Missouri to Oregon and was used by thousand of settlers moving west.
What is the Oregon Trail?
This term described the belief that Americans were destined to expand across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill in this state in 1848, starting a rush of settlers.
What is California?
This 1803 purchase doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This Founding Father and first U.S. President has been the face of the one-dollar bill since 1869.
Who is George Washington?
This trail was used by traders to exchange goods between the United States and Mexico
What is the Santa Fe Trail?
This president is most associated with promoting Manifest Destiny and oversaw the annexation of Texas.
Who is James K. Polk?
People who traveled to California in hopes of finding gold in 1849 were called this.
What are 'forty-niners'?
This war between the U.S. and Mexico resulted in the U.S. gaining much of the Southwest.
What is the Mexican-American War?
In 2016, the Treasury announced plans to eventually replace the 7th president on the $20 bill with abolitionist Harriet Tubman.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
Mormons traveled this route to escape religious persecution and settle in Utah.
What is the Mormon Trail?
The phrase 'from sea to shining sea' refers to this idea.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This method of searching for gold involved using a shallow pan and water.
What is panning?
This treaty ended the Mexican-American War and gave the U.S. California and New Mexico.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
These are the only two bills that feature men who were NEVER U.S. Presidents.
Who are Alexander Hamilton and Benjamin Franklin?
This trail was important during the California Gold Rush.
What is the California Trail?
This 1846 treaty with Britain set the boundary for the Oregon Territory at the 49th parallel.
What is the Oregon Treaty?
This city grew rapidly during the Gold Rush and became a major port on the West Coast.
What is San Francisco?
This compromise in 1820 maintained the balance between free and slave states as the country expanded westward.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This man, the 18th President and former General of the Union Army, has appeared on the $50 bill since 1913.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?