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This 3rd U.S. President commissioned the expedition to explore the newly acquired Louisiana Territory.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
100
During Jackson’s presidency, voting rights expanded for this group of people.
Who are white men without property?
100
Name 3 tribes that were relocated under the Indian Removal Act
Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Fox, Sauk, Creek
100
(Daily Double!!!) This Mexican general and president led the Mexican army at the Alamo.
Who is Antonio López de Santa Anna?
100
Who was the interpreter/guide on the Lewis and Clark expedition?
Who is Sacagawea?
100
The 19th-century movement of settlers into the West began with the Louisiana Purchase and was fueled by the Gold Rush, the Oregon Trail, and a belief in manifest destiny.
What is Westward Expansion?
200
The railroad the connected the entire country was called the...
Transcontinental Railroad
200
Who did the US acquire Florida from?
What is Spain?
200
What happened in California in 1849?
Gold Rush
200
Although the Texans lost the battle in San Antonio, this phrase became a powerful rallying cry.
What is Remember the Alamo!
200
Which immigrant groups helped build the railroad?
Irish and Chinese
200
Lewis and Clark began their expedition in this year.
What is 1804?
300
Allowed for fast transportation over land.
Steam Engine / Railroad
300
Where were Indians relocated to?
Indian Territory / Oklahoma
300
This was the primary, quick-fix method used by the '49ers during the California Gold Rush to extract placer gold from rivers
What is Pan mining?
300
a roughly 2,000-mile, east-west, large-wheeled wagon route that allowed hundreds of thousands of Americans to emigrate to the Pacific Northwest from the 1840s through the 1880s
What is The Oregon Trail?
300
An American general and statesman who played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution, by beating Santa Ana during the battle of San Jacinto in 1836
Who is Sam Houston?
300
( Daily Double!!) The intense loyalty to a specific region's economic, cultural, and political interests over those of the nation as a whole.
What is sectionalism?
400
This War of 1812 battle made Andrew Jackson a national hero.
What is the Battle of New Orleans?
400
A German immigrant capitalized on the California Gold Rush by opening a San Francisco branch of his family’s dry goods business in 1853. He sold durable pants for miners.
Who is Levi Strauss?
400
This law gave the President the power to force Native American tribes to move to land west of the Mississippi River
What is the Indian Removal Act?
400
The tribe in Florida that resisted the Indian Removal Act and stayed in Florida
Who are the Seminoles?
400
Which two rivers were part of the dispute that caused the Mexican-American War in 1848?
What are the Rio Grande and the Nueces River?
400
This coffee originated during the 1850 California Gold Rush when 14-year-old ________ arrived in San Francisco from Nantucket to start a coffee business rather than pan for gold
Who is James Folger?
500
Approximately 80,000–90,000 fortune-seekers, who migrated to California in 1849 in search of gold.
Who are the 49ers?
500
An American politician, militia officer, and frontiersman. Often referred to in popular culture as the "King of the Wild Frontier", he represented Tennessee in the United States House of Representatives and fought in the Texas Revolution.
Who is Davy Crockett?
500
_________ is a practice in which a political party, after winning an election, gives government jobs to its supporters
What is the spoils system?
500
_____ was the commander of a small force of Texans and Tejanos at Alamo.
Who is William B Travis?
500
Which river divides the US into 2 parts. It was vital for trade and transportation.
Mississippi River
500
This was the number of years Texas remained an independent country
What is 10 years?