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Regions
Louisiana Purchase and the Corps of Discovery
War of 1812
Texas Revolution and the Mexican War
Moving West (Trails, Indian Removal, and Gold Rush)
100
Region gained in 1803 from France.
What is Louisiana Territory?
100
Full names of both leaders of the Corps of Discovery.
Who are Meriwether Lewis and William Clark?
100
Battle after the War of 1812 ended that made Andrew Jackson a national hero.
What is the Battle of New Orleans?
100
Winning side in the Battle of the Alamo.
Who are the Mexicans?
100
Country that gave us Florida after Andrew Jackson invaded.
What is Spain?
200
Region split between Britain and the U.S. in 1846.
What is Oregon Country?
200
River that needed to be opened for trade before the Louisiana Purchase was completed.
What is the Mississippi River?
200
U.S. opponent in the War of 1812.
What is Britain?
200
Winning side in the Battle of San Jacinto.
Who are the Texans?
200
Free state added to the United States in 1850.
What is California?
300
Included the present day states of California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona.
What is The Mexican Cession?
300
Mythical passage through North America not found by the Corps of Discovery.
What is the Northwest Passage?
300
British strategy to capture or kidnap American sailors.
What is impressment?
300
Three states within the Mexican Cession.
What are New Mexico, Arizona, California, Utah, Nevada, Colorado, or Wyoming?
300
Interacting with other countries.
What is Foreign Policy?
400
The addition of this formerly independent nation in 1845.
What is the Texas Annexation?
400
Region the Corps of Discovery successfully reached along the Pacific Ocean.
What is Oregon?
400
Name for a group of Americans mad at the British for helping Native Americans west of the Appalachian Mountains.
Who are the War Hawks?
400
Region of the U.S. that would be more likely to support fighting in the Mexican War.
What is the South (or what was then the Southwest)?
400
Improving the country from within.
What is Domestic Policy?
500
Treaty that added the Trans-Appalachian West or land between the the Mississippi River and the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
500
In 1803 money, the amount per acre the Louisiana Territory was purchased for.
What is 3 cents/acre?
500
American region where British forts still existed after the Revolutionary War.
What is the Great Lakes region?
500
Present day state that was taken by the Americans without firing a shot.
What is New Mexico?
500
Driving force or idea pushing Americans to move west.
What is Manifest Destiny?