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Vocab
100

The main goal of the Corps of Discovery

What is finding a water route to the Pacific

100

This French leader struck a deal with Thomas Jefferson over the sale of the Louisiana Territory

Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?

100

This was the impact of eminent domain on Native Americans

What is they were forced out for their lands?

100

This was the most active and important port in Louisianna

What is the port of New Orleans?

100

A widespread outbreak of disease

What is an epidemic?

200

All expeditions we have talked about stopped at or went through this Missouri city

What is St. Louis?

200

This was the goal of missionary schools

What is to convert natives to Christianity?

200

Some native tribes chose to do this with the Europeans

What is assimilate?

200

The US gained control of the Mississippi River after this big buy

What is the Louisiana Purchase?

200

The power of the government to take private property for public use

What is eminent domain?

300

This man was the first to journey across the land now known as Kansas

Who is Zebulon Pike?

300

This is why some natives welcomed missionaries

What is they had some useful trade goods?

300

Land dedicated to the settlement of Native Americans, they were forced onto these

What is a reservation?

300

This country sold Benjamin Franklin the territory that doubled the size of America

What is France?

300

The flowing together of two or more streams or rivers

What is confluence?

400

These structures housed American soldiers and militaries


What are forts?

400

James Madison asked this of Stephen Long 

What is exploring borders?

400

This area was covered in lush trees and fertile lands unsettled by man

What is the Louisiana Territory?

400

This was Meriweather Lewis' occupation (career)

What is a cartographer?

500

The idea that it was the fate of the settlers to move west and expand their territory

What is Manifest Destiny?

500

1. To protect Native American lands

2. To protect travelers on the trails

3. To maintain peace with the Natives

What are 3 reasons the government built forts in Kansas?

500

This short European leader led his men into battle many times, causing France to go broke

Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?

500

Both of these men believed that the Louisiana Territory was unfit for settlement

Who are Pike and Long?

500

This is what life was like on the Oregon Trail

What is exhausting, bad weather, sickness, lack of food or shelter, etc.?