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Native Americans
Colonial America
Louisiana Purchase
Westward Expansion
Mystery
100
This describes the origin and nature of the earth and often convey particular belief systems or values of Native American tribes.
What is a Creation Story
100
She was the daughter of Chief Powhatan and married the Englishman John Rolfe.
Who is Pocahontas.
100
She accompanied Lewis and Clark on their expedition and became a very important resource and addition to their group.
Who is Sacagawea.
100
This term from the 1840s referred to how the people of the United States felt it was their mission to extend the "boundaries of freedom" to others. The United States was meant to have their territory extend from the East Coast to the West Coast.
What is "Manifest Destiny"
100
Identify TWO European countries that had claimed a large amount of land in North America prior to the formation of the United States
What is Spain, France, Great Britain, Russia
200
More than 10,000 years ago, this ice bridge allowed people to cross from East Asia into North America. They followed herds of large mammals to hunt for food and shelter. This is one theory about how the America’s were populated.
What is the Bering Land Bridge
200
A major part of the New England economy and source of jobs came from this industry.
What is shipbuilding (and fishing)
200
The was President at the time of the Louisana Purchase.
Who is Thomas Jefferson
200
This Act made it legal for President Jackson to negotiate with Native Americans to remove them from their lands to federal territory west of the Mississippi.
What is the Indian Removal Act (Trail of Tears)
200
Jamestown and Virginia became a very important colony economically for growing what kind of cash crop?
What is Tobacco
300
These Native people are from Maine and consists of 4 tribes.
What are the Wabanaki people.
300
England won this war and received the lucrative Ohio River Valley and Canada as part of the peace treaty.
What is the French and Indian War.
300
This person sold the Louisiana Purchase to Jefferson.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
300
This law helped provide for the orderly establishment of future states. It divided uninhabited American land into territories and governed by a governor. The territories could then petition the federal government to become a state.
What is the Northwest Ordinance. (Ordinance of 1787.)
300
This was the most famous Indian Boarding School during the 1800s. Its mission was to assimilate Native American youths into American (and western) society.
What is the Carlisle Indian School
400
This decree was issued by the Massachusetts colony as a way to eliminate the potential threat of the Penobscot people in Maine.
What is the Scalp Proclamation
400
The first European to be born in the New World.
Who is Virginia Dare?
400
Jefferson was hoping to find this within the Lousiana Purchase.
What is the Northwest Passage?
400
The Gold Rush in California happened in this year.
What is 1849
400
This is the year the Gold Rush "began."
What is 1849?
500
This war was considered one of the most destructive in American history. It was a series of clashes between colonial towns in New England and Native American tribes and settlements in the region. This war ended the presence of Native American tribes in the Massachusetts region.
What is King Philip's War
500
This Act prohibited British colonists from settling the lands past the Appalachian mountains. England promised the land to the Native Americans and did not want the colonies to grow any larger.
What is the Proclamation Act of 1763
500
Lewis + Clark found the "Continental Divide" as they were on their expedition. What is this also called?
What is the Rocky Mountains.
500
This innovation opened up new trade markets in the United States, and put more pressure on Native Americans to move to reservations.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
500
Give one example of how the painting "American Progress" demonstrates Westward Expansion.
What is .... light vs. dark, transportation innovations, telegraph wires, pushing out Native Americans, civilization vs. West Coast, domesticated vs. wild animals.