The Louisiana Purchase
This type of society is one in which its citizens contribute and are supported by farming.
What is an Agrarian Society
The most valuable ally in the effort to explore the Western United States was a shoshone woman who played guide, protector, negotiator, and diplomat, named this.
Who is Sacagawea
The construction of the Transcontinental Railroad was made possible by the arduous labor of these two immigrant groups.
Who are the Chinese and Irish
This individual was told he'd only find his own death if he sought out silver in the Cherokee populated Arizona Territory where he inevitable founded Tombstone.
Who is Ed Shieffelin
Due to the timing of the gold rush, its participants were given this creative nickname
What are forty-niners?
As opposed to foreign goods which are imported from international sources; this type of good is found or manufactured in one's own country.
What are Domestic Goods
The lesser known explorer Zebulon Pike lost many of his maps during an arrest in Mexico territory. He was able to save one, by cunningly doing this
What is hiding a map in the barrel of his gun
Construction of the railroad was done from either end, ultimately meeting at a central point and celebrated with a Golden Spike ceremony in this location
What is Promontory, Utah
When the resource that motivated the founding or creation of a boom town is no longer accessible, those that populated it often abandon the space in favor of prosperity elsewhere. These empty towns came to be know as this.
What are ghost towns?
A carpenter named James Marshall found gold in a river while working at this location
What is Sutter's Mill?
This treaty was a deal made in secret in which France transferred ownership of the Louisiana Territory over to Spain in an effort to keep it from the encrouching British victory.
The Treaty of Fontainbleau
What is Manifest Destiny
This is a modern day title for a yeoman farmer, one who was granted up to 160 acres by the US government in an effort to create more farmland across the United States
What is a homesteader?
The main concern of the Cochise County Cowboys was not the Earps and their allies, but instead the development of these two factors in the blossoming town.
What are businessmen and politicians
The gold rush itself created wealth, not through gold, but instead thrugh this means
What is selling to miners -or- what is developing industry around mining.
This agreement allowed for the return of the ownership of the Louisiana Territory back to France with the understanding of keeping it out of the hands of other foreign powers (an understanding that was disregarded very shortly after)
What is The Treaty of San Ildefonso
While Lewis and Clark provided many of the maps; the actual trails made westward were established by fur traders, those opening trading posts, and this type of religious undertaking
What are Missions?
In 1846, this battle was fought between US and Mexican armies in a disputed territory near the Rio Grande. It served as a strong reason to declare war between the two countries
What is the Thornton Affair
"Because growth came before planning, many boom towns were destined to fail because..." name at least 2 factors from this thesis on boom towns
What are: lack of order, minimal laws, poor sanitation, or frequent violent conflicts
While California's wealth hadn't been established, it was this factor that actually led to their expidited statehood
While the US was only seeking ownership of te City of New Orleans, they inevitably negotiated the purchase of the entire Louisiana Territory for $15 Million; a deal that was made official by this type of formal treaty.
What is a Treaty of Cession
This common disease accounted for a number of fatalities throughout the journey of the Oregon Trail
What is Cholera
This law required individuals to prove their citizenship and ownership of the land on which they lived. It was a underhanded way of claiming property from annexed Mexican land which was won during the Mexican-American War
What is the California Land Act of 1851
The town of Tombstone became a part of American legend, however, the actual source of its growth, Silver, was lost to this
What is a flood of the mine
Not all of the consequences of the Gold Rush were positive, California natural landscape faced trouble due to these environmental troubles
What are deforestation (lumber) and damming of rivers