Louisiana Purchase
The area (location) of the Louisiana Purchase
What is from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains?
The river Lewis and Clark traveled on the longest.
What is the Missouri?
This battle gave the Union army control of the Mississippi River.
What is Vicksburg
This was the first state to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
This event sparked the beginning of the Spanish American War.
What is the explosion and sinking of the USS Maine?
This is country from which the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory.
What is France?
This Shoshone Indian joined the group as a guide and an interpreter.
Who is Sacajawea?
This battle was considered the turning point of the war. After this event, Lee would be forced to fight a defensive war.
What is Gettysburg?
In this speech Lincoln presented the Civil War as a struggle for the preservation of the Union and democracy.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This president was encouraged by John Muir to conserve America's beauty through the creation of national parks
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This president arranged the Louisiana Purchase.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Explorers hoped this trade route crossed North America.
What is the Northwest Passage?
The Confederacy surrendered to the Union army at this courthouse in Virginia
What is Appomattox?
This would be considered the immediate cause of the secession of several Southern states from the Union in 1860?
What is the election of Abraham Lincoln?
This event lead to US involvement in World War II.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
This is the amount the US paid for the Louisiana Territory.
What is 15 million dollars?
This is the man Thomas Jefferson selected to lead the Corp of Discovery.
Who is Meriwether Lewis?
Lee loses his right hand man, Stonewall Jackson, after this battle.
What is Chancellorsville?
This great orator and abolitionist was a former slave who met with President Lincoln to discuss the treatment of the African American soldiers in the Union army.
Who is Frederick Douglas?
Black Tuesday, the Dust Bowl, and The New Deal were all part of this time period in American history.
What is the Great Depression?
This is the port Jefferson wanted to control through the purchase of the Louisiana Territory.
What is New Orleans?
This was the only man to Corps member who died on the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Who is Sergeant Floyd?
This Union general conducted "The March to the Sea" and stated that "War is hell."
Who is Sherman?
This event led to the deaths of more that 50 Virginians and struck fear into the hearts of slave owners.
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion?
This group finally received the right to vote in 1920?
Who are women?