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100

Thanks to this (and France), America was able to increase the size of their country considerably.

What is the Louisiana Purchase?
100

This woman was responsible for guiding Lewis and Clark throughout their expedition.

Who is Sacajawea?

100
This piece of legislation declared that North America were to no longer be viewed as "open" to colonization.

What is the Monroe Doctrine?

100
The idea that God had called settlers to move West was called this.
What is Manifest Destiny?
100

These animals were purposefully exterminated in an attempt to control the Native American population.

What are Buffalo?

200

In the Louisiana Purchase, one million square miles cost about this much per acre.

What is less than three cents per acre?

200

This ruler of France sold all the land of the Louisiana Purchase to the United States.

Who is Napoleon?

200

This act enabled settlers to purchase up to 160 acres of "public" land for about $10.

What is the Homestead Act?

200
Famous for the disaster they faced and their subsequent cannibalism, this group was trying to settle the Oregon Territory.

Who is the Donner Party?

200

This was a forced relocation of the Cherokee nation over thousand miles, mostly on foot during the winter. 

What is the Trail of Tears?

300

This modern-day state was a source of frustration for slave owners.

What is Florida?

300

Under this American president, the Louisiana Purchase was made.

Who is Jefferson?

300

Under this act, Native Americans were removed from their homes, and placed onto reservations and government run schools. 

What is the Dawes Act?

300

While trying to find gold, silver, and copper, miners settled in these, which later became ghost towns.

What are mining towns?

300

The Homestead Act enabled settlers to buy land in mostly this modern-day state.

What is Oklahoma?

400

In this armed conflict, the United States was able to annex Texas, New Mexico, and parts of Arizona.

What is the Mexican-American War?

400

Under this president, Native Americans were forcibly removed from their homes.

Who is Jackson?

400

Reforms like temperance, sufferage, and abolition would later be put into law, but was inspired by this religious re-commitment to God. 

What is the Second Great Awakening?

400
While trying to escape religious persecution, this group of people initially wanted to settle in Illinois, but ended up settling in Utah.

Who are Mormons?

400
The goal of the American government, was to do this with Native Americans, or to remove their cultural traditions to make them more American.

What is Assimilation?

500

The goal of Manifest Destiny was to reach this point.

What is the Pacific Ocean?

500

This person is credited with the creation of the Mormon denomination, and was later murdered due to religious persecution.

Who is Joseph Smith?

500

This country's interest in Alaska led to the creation of the Monroe Doctrine.

What is Russia?

500

Lewis and Clark's expedition was meant to get them to this mountain range. 

What are the Rocky Mountains?

500

A Native American tribe.

Any native American tribe.