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Who did Jefferson buy the Louisiana territory from?
What is France?
This opened so goods could be carried from New York City to the Great Lakes.
What is the Eerie Canal?
What state is annexed in 1845?
What is Texas?
Two reasons for moving west.
What are religion, cheap land, farming land, gold rush.
A special name for a pioneer who traveled west to search for gold in California.
Who is a forty-niner?
In this expedition, these two people explored the Louisiana Purchase from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
What law forced Native Americans to move West of the Mississippi River in 1830?
What is the Indian Removal Act?
Name of the treaty that ended the Mexican-American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo?
Name of the transportation pioneers used to move westward on the trails.
What is a prairie schooner or wagon?
The "sickness" that caused thousands of people to travel to California in 1849 and after.
What is gold fever?
Name two overland trails used during westward expansion.
What are the Oregon Trail, Santa Fe Trail, or Mormon Trail?
What is it called when pioneers to take the wheels off of their wagons and coat the sides with a waterproof tar or wax.
What is caulking the wagon to cross a river?
This fort was attacked for 13 days in Texas in 1836.
What is the Alamo?
This was the most common route that the pioneers traveled from Independence Missouri to go west to Willamette Valley.
What is the Oregon Trail?
The gold rush lasted for about this long.
What is two years?
When there wasn't any wood to build a campfire, the pioneers would use these instead.
What are buffalo chips?
In 1820, this man wanted to start an American colony in Texas which was owned by Mexico at this time.
Who is Sam Austin?
Name two landmarks along the Oregon Trail?
What is Chimney Rock, Devil's Gate, Independence Rock, Fort Laramie, Fort Kearney.
THis man made his fortune by selling canvas pants to the miners.
Who is Levi Strauss?
The Gadsden Purchase, making New Mexico bigger, between the United States and Mexico occured in what year?
What is 1853?
What country did the U.S. divide Oregon Country with at the 49th parallel?
What is Britain/England?
In the 1800s Americans believed America should stretch from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. This is idea is known as __________?
What is manifest destiny?
Which President signed the treaty in 1846 that gave America the land from the British that they could then travel west to?
Who is President James K Polk?
In January of 1848 this man found gold near a waterwheel.
Who is James Marshall?