The Louisiana Purchase
The country which sold the Louisiana Purchase to the US
What is France?
The year that William Clark and Meriwether Lewis set out to explore the newly purchased Louisiana Territory
What was 1804?
The year the War of 1812 ended
What was 1815?
The state where much of the original Cherokee Nation land was located
What was Georgia?
The president whose name is associated with a "doctrine" asserting American's place in the world
Who was President Monroe?
The amount of money the US paid for the territory of "Louisiana"
What was $15 million?
The length of time that the explorers traveled, there and back again
What was 2 years and 4 months?
What was Canada?
The state where the members of the "5 Civilized Nations" were given territory, instead of their ancestral lands
What was Oklahoma?
The area of the world that America claimed for itself in 1821
What was the western hemisphere?
or, What was North, Central and South America?
The president in office at the time of the purchase
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
One thing that the explorers were hoping to find on their travels
What is a water route from the Mississippi to the Pacific?
The term for kidnapping sailors and forcing them to work on your ship
What was "impressing?"
In the traditional Cherokee way, these people were the farmers
Who were the women?
What is "isolationism?"
The amount by which the Louisiana Purchase increased the size of the US
What was by half?
or, What was doubled?
The Shoshoni guide that had her baby while traveling with the expedition
Who was Sacajawea?
The two European nations whose war led to US involvement
What were England and France?
The year that the Supreme Court issued a decision in favor of Cherokee sovereignty that the president ignored
What was 1831?
The writer John O'Sullivan was telling this country to stay out of US business when he wrote the article about Manifest Destiny
What was Mexico?
The farthest western state whose territory was partially included in the purchase
What is Idaho?
What York, the enslaved man who served William Clark, was hoping for at the end of the journey
What was his freedom?
One of the 2 war heroes who would later become president
Who was William Henry Harrison?
or, Who was Andrew Jackson?
The issue that bitterly divided the Cherokee Nation into 2 different groups
What was signing the Treaty with the US government?
In the painting "American Progress" Eastern lands demonstrate this symbol of civilization, unlike Western lands
What was the railroad / the telegraph / a city / farming / big ships / sunlight / etc?