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What were all lands north of the Ohio River which eventually became Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota called?
Northwest Territory
What was the natural pass through the Appalachian Mountains near the Virginia-Tennessee border and the mountain pass used by Daniel Boone to get to the Kentucky frontier?
Cumberland Gap
What was the port city where pioneer and colonial farmers would ship their goods?
New Orleans
What was the battle won by General William Henry Harrison in the War of 1812 which resulted in the death of Tecumseh and the decline of the Eastern Woodland tribes?
Battle of the Thames
What treaty ended the boundary dispute between the Western Confederacy and settlers in the Northwest Territory?
What was the battle fought between General Andrew Jackson and British forces and was noted as the last great battle of the War of 1812?
Battle of New Orleans
What was the battle in which Tennessee riflemen under Andrew Jackson met and defeated the Creek Nation in the War or 1812?
Battle of Horseshoe Bend
What was the war fought from 1812 to 1814 between the United States and Britain?
War of 1812
What was the treaty signed in 1819 in which Spain ceded Florida to the United States and the United States agreed to pay the claims of American citizens held against Spain up to $5 million?
Adams-Onis Treaty
What was the name of the fort built in Kentucky by Daniel Boone for the purpose of protecting settlers from Indigenous peoples
Boonesborough
What was the treaty signed in 1814 that officially ended the War of 1812 between the British and the Americans?
Treaty of Ghent
What was the battle in which Captain Oliver Hazard Perry defeated the British Great Lakes Fleet in the War of 1812?
Battle of Lake Erie
What was the valley in northern Kentucky with a large salt lake and salt springs that was littered with the bones of giant mastodons, dinosaurs, and sloths?
Big Bone Lick
What was the first state in the Northwest Territory?
Ohio
What was the first frontier or “western” state admitted to the Union?
What was the trail blazed by Daniel Boone and his men through the Cumberland Gap that served as a path for families bound for the west?
Wilderness Road
What was the battle in which William Henry Harrison defeated Tecumseh’s Confederacy just before the beginning of the War of 1812?
Battle of Tippecanoe
What was the mountain in the Colorado Rockies discovered by Zebulon Pike?
Pikes Peak
What was the land sold to the United States from France for $15 Million Dollars in 1803 which nearly doubled the size of the United States?
Louisiana Purchase
What was the secret convention at which northern Federalists condemned the War of 1812 and declared the right of a state to nullify an act of Congress?
Hartford Convention