Louisiana Purchase
This is the land purchased by Thomas Jefferson from the French.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Reason for people moving to the lands west of the Mississippi.
What is cheap land? What is run away from crimes? What are business opportunities?
This is the state that the Cherokee lived in before their difficult journey.
What is Georgia?
Being more concerned about your area or region of the country more than the country itself.
What is sectionalism?
He was a general and the first president of the United States of America.
Who is George Washington?
These are the two men given the task of exploring the land that was purchased in the Louisiana Purchase.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
These were the people living on lands west of the Mississippi.
Who are the Native Americans?
This is the land that the Cherokee and other native american tribes were forced to move to.
What is Indian Territory or Oklahoma?
State that entered the Union as a free state in 1820.
What is Maine?
Who did the colonist fight to win independence?
This was the woman that helped translate and communicate with other Native Americans.
Who is Sacajawea?
This was the land in the far west that many people traveled to to start a new life.
What is the Oregon Territory?
This was the resource that was found that lead to the removal of the Cherokee from their native lands.
What is gold?
Name of the state that entered the Union as a Slave State in 1821.
What is Missouri?
This is used to travel west but tracks are needed to travel on it.
What is a train?
What is New Orleans?
This is the city that many people left from to begin their journey to the west.
What is Independence, Missouri?
This was the last tribe to move to the west beyond the Mississippi River.
Who are the Cherokee?
Name of the agreement that allowed one slave state and one free state to enter the Union relatively close to each other.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Waterways that connect rivers and other bodies of water to float goods to cities to be shipped across the ocean.
What are canals?
The purchase of the Louisiana territory did these two things for America?
What is double the size of the USA? What is the control the Mississippi River? What allows people to move west?
Broken wagons, lack of food, disease, weather that is too hot or too cold, and thieves stealing your possessions. It takes 3 months to arrive.
What are the difficulties of traveling the Oregon Trail?
4,000 people dead, people forced from their houses without jackets, shoes, or blankets. People put into stockades and forced to sleep outside without shelter. Soldiers treating native Americans poorly.
Why is it called the Trail of Tears?
Had more money, more cities, more jobs, more people, bigger economy, and did not have slaves.
What is the North?
The engine that allowed for the creation of steamboats and trains.
What is the Steam Engine?