Going West
The belief that God had given the United States the right to move westward and to bring freedom and liberty to those who chose to settle there.
What is manifest destiny?
The year congress declared war on Great Britain.
When is 1812?
Missouri was a _______ state in 1845.
What is slave?
Andrew Jackson signed this act. This act required any Native Americans living east of the Mississippi River to give up their land.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
The name of the man who was elected president in 1808.
Who is James Madison?
This massive 1803 land purchase from France doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
First Lady Dolley Madison, saved a painting of which president when the white house burned down in 1814.
Who is George Washington?
This compromise was passed by Congress in 1820.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This happened to Native America tribal lands as American settles continue to move west.
What is lost a lot of their land/land decreased?
The principle that President James Polk used to declare war on Mexico.
What is Manifest Destiny?
These two famous explorers were hired by Thomas Jefferson to map out the new western territory.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
The Treaty of ______ was signed in 1814.
What is Ghent?
By letting Missouri enter the United States as a slave state, this other state was able to become a free state.
What is Maine?
Native American tribes east of the Mississippi River were forced into the __________ Territory.
What is Oklahoma?
This word means "to convince."
What is dissuade?
The reason why someone would travel by boat instead of land.
What is a faster, easier way of travel?
The Battle of New _____ happened in 1815.
What is Orleans?
BONUS: Lewis and Clark started and ended their journey in this city.
Where is St. Louis? (also St. Charles)
This amount of Native Americans were forced to walk what is known as the Trail of Tears.
What is more than 200,000?
This word describes an agreement or settlement reached by both sides in a disagreement?
What is compromise?
The name of the grueling path that thousands of pioneers used to travel to the Pacific Northwest by covered wagon.
What is the Oregon Trail?
After Francis Scott key witnessed the attack on Fort McHenry, he wrote a poem that later became what song?
What is the national anthem?
BONUS: This town in Missouri is known as the official starting point of the Oregon Trail.
Where is Independence?
How westward expansion and Manifest Destiny led to violent conflicts in the United States.
What is Native Americans got involved with the losing side of the War of 1812 and got into disagreements with American settlers and their right to land?
The four goals Congress approved in 1823 for U.S. foreign policy are know at this.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?