Exploration
They were the first white men to explored the Louisiana Territory.
Who are Lewis and Clark
This state was purchased from the Spanish.
What is Florida?
The discovery of this in 1849 encouraged people to move to Cali.
What is gold?
Texas was originally part of this country.
What is Mexico?
The Cherokee Indians were put on a forced march known as this.
What is the Trail of Tears?
She was the guide for the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Who was Sacagawea?
What was the Spanish-American War?
This religious group migrated west and settled in Utah.
Who are the Mormons?
187 people were killed defending this mission.
What is the Alamo?
Who were the Seminoles?
This group made their living by hunting and trapping beaver.
Who were the mountain men?
California, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado were all part of this acquisition.
What is the Mexican Cession?
What is the Oregon Trail?
He led the first group of American settlers to Texas.
Who is Stephen Austin?
He made his last stand at the Little Bighorn.
Who is George Armstrong Custer?
Lewis and Clark travelled on this river to the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Columbia River?
This law gave free land to settlers in the Oklahoma Territory.
What was the Homestead Act?
This invention drastically reduced the travel time to Cali.
What was the steam engine?
The Mexican-American War established this as the southern border of Texas.
What is the Rio Grande?
He helped starve Native Americans by killing off their food supply.
Who was Buffalo Bill?
A mountain man and knife inventor, he died at the Alamo.
Who is Jim Bowie?
This doctrine warned Europeans to stay out of the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
It wasn't a great "party" since many of them froze to death in the Sierra Nevadas.
What was the Donner Party?
The country of Texas was nicknamed this.
What is the Lone Star Republic?
This law allowed the government to relocate eastern native tribes west of the Mississippi.
What was the Indian Removal Act?