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Cotton
Louisiana Purchase
Mexican-American War
Gold!
Native Americans
100

Cotton was originally one of these four money making plants

What are cash crops?

100

This was the president who wanted to support the French in the French Revolution

Who is Thomas Jefferson?

100

This was the first time the US did this on foreign soil

What is fight a war?

100

This is the city where many settled to find gold

What is San Francisco?

100
The federal government helped organize this event to remove Native Americans from their home lands

What is the trail of tears?

200

This event was organized by the federal government so, cotton growers could have more land

What is the Trail of Tears?

200

The amount of that was paid to France for the territory 

What is $15 Million?
200

This president did not want to annex Texas because of these two states

What are California and Oregon?

200

This is the year many gold miners come to the area 

What is 1849?

200

Lewis and Clark met about this many tribes during their expedition

What is 50 or more?

300

Eli Whitney invented this machine to help remove the seeds and speed up processing

What is the cotton gin?

300

The two explorers sent to go through the Louisiana purchase

Who are Lewis and Clark?

300

The public did not want to annex Texas because it would have an economic impact on this 

What is slavery?

300

This extraordinary amount of precious metals was extracted from the earth

What is $2 billion?

300

The friendship coin offered to Native Americans had what president carved on the back

Who is Thomas Jefferson?

400

This was the amount of cotton produced each year by the US by 1830

What is 3 billion pounds?

400
Lewis and Clark were offering this to Native Americans in exchange for peace

What is military protection and trading?

400

This was the president at the time of the war

Who is President Polk?

400
DAILY DOUBLE

This fabric was invented for durability in the gold mine

What is denim?

400

This is the name of the tribe Sacagawea is from

Who are the Shoshone?
500

The largest slave port and largest producer of cotton was located in this state

What is South Carolina?

500

This woman was kidnapped and sold into slavery to the French but, made Lewis and Clark's expedition successful

Who is Sacagawea?

500
This river is now the border between Mexico and the US

What is the Rio Grande?

500

This is the name of a town that is abandoned after all the resources have been taken

What is a boom town?

500

This is what happened to Native Americans during the Trail of Tears; a loss of culture and identity

What is assimilation?