Geography
The continent in the north western hemisphere of the world
What is North America?
The number of states in the U.S. in 1783
What is 13?
A law passed in 1862 that gave citizens 160 acres of land in exchange for living on the land and making it better for 5 years.
What is the Homestead Act?
The Native American woman who helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Who was Sacajawea?
The name of the leaders who led the Corp of Discovery in 1804
Who are Lewis and Clark?
The major mountain range in the Western U.S.
What is the Rocky Mountain Range?
Thomas Jefferson's land purchase in 1803 that doubled our country's size overnight
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The most important route used to travel west in the mid 1800's
What is the Oregon Trail?
An area of land set aside by the U.S. government for American Indians.
What is a reservation?
The 5th President of the United states who changed our foreign policy toward other countries.
Who is James Monroe?
The nickname for the midwestern states
What is the breadbasket?
The number of people needed to live in a territory before it could become a state
What is 60,000?
The discovery of this metal in 1848 caused thousands of people to rush to California.
What is gold?
In 1830, President Jackson passed this law to pay Native Americans living in the East to move.
What is the Indian Removal act?
The famous Texan who got revenge from the battle of the Alamo and captured Santa Anna forcing him to sign a treaty declaring Texas was free
Who was Sam Houston?
The major river that separated the original United States from the western territories
What is the Mississippi?
In a compromise with Great Britain in 1846, all of this land south of the 49th degree of latitude became part of the U.S.
What is the Oregon Territory?
The belief that white Americans had the right to own and settle all land from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean
What is Manifest Destiny?
The forced removal of the Cherokee Nation in 1838
What is the Trail of Tears?
The name of the President who made the American dream of Manifest Destiny a reality.
Who was James Polk?
The river in the Oregon Territory that Lewis and Clark used to get to the Pacific Ocean?
What is the Columbia River?
The name of the treaty that gave the U.S. the Mexican Cession
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This joined all parts of the United states together as one country from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
The major conflict between the Sioux forces and Colonel George Custer and the U.S. Seventh Calvary in June, 1876
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
The frontier hero famous for defending the Alamo
Who is Davy Crocket?