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This "Red Fox" authorized the Louisiana Purchase...or did he.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
In 1849, people flocked west to prospect and hopefully strike it rich in this event! Eureka!
What is the California Gold Rush?
This policy was the forced relocation of Native Tribes to "Indian Territory" in modern day Oklahoma
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This "Purchase" came from the French in 1803, and doubled the size of the United States
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This river was a major travel route throughout the middle of the US, running from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico
What is the Mississippi River?
These two gentlemen lead the expedition through the Louisiana Territory, all the way to Fort Clatsop at the Pacific Ocean.
Who are (Meriwether) Lewis and (William) Clark?
This war is sometimes referred to as the "2nd War for Independence"
What is the War of 1812?
This policy prohibited slavery to the north of the 36 degree line of latitude, while adding two states to keep the balance between slave and free.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This state was its own country for 9 years after fighting a brief revolution. Remember the Alamo!
What is Texas?
To settle the territorial settlements in the Pacific Northwest, the US and Britain wrote this:
What is the Oregon Treaty?
He won the election of 1860, becoming the 16th President of the United States.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This was the idea that US Westward Expansion was "justifiable and inevitable"
What is Manifest Destiny?
This legislation effectively undid the Missouri Compromise
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The United States acquired the majority of the American Southwest in the event that became known as this
What is the Mexican Cession?
Also acceptable: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
When the US signed this, they acquired territory all the way to the Mississippi River
What is the Treaty of Paris?
She wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin," which fueled the divisions between pro and anti-slavery.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Robert E. Lee shut down an attack on Harpers Ferry, lead by this violent abolitionist
Who is John Brown?
In 1823, this was one of the early far-reaching foreign policies for the country.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
AKA the Adams-Onis Treaty, the acquisition of this territory came from Spain in 1819
What is Florida?
This treaty included the phrase "status quo antebellum" and tried to resolve the US-Canada border
What is the Treaty of Ghent?
He was a former slave who became a well-known abolitionist, author, and advisor for Lincoln.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
The US started this in 1846 over a simple border dispute in the southern United States
What is the Mexican-American War?
This agreement added California to the Union
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This line forms the border between the US and Canada from Lake of the Woods to the Pacific Ocean.
What is the 49th Parallel?
The last small chunk of land in the American Southwest the US acquired goes by this name