Purchases and Explorers
This piece of land was purchased from France for $15 million dollars in 1803.
What is The Louisiana Purchase.
The high line in the Rockies from which water flows west on one side and east on the other.
What is the Continental Divide?
This Shawnee leader attacked settlers in the Northwest Territories, and joined Great Britian in the war against America.
Who is Tecumseh?
This president was unanimously elected president, twice.
Who is George Washington (1st president)?
Americans promised Mexico they would convert to this religion in order to have Texas.
What is Roman Catholicism?
Where newly settles areas meet unsettled but not necessarily uninhabited, areas
What is frontier?
This lake is the source of the Mississippi River, in Northern Minnesota.
What is Lake Itasca?
This act allowed for Westward expansion and was pushed through during Andrew Jackson's presidency.
What is Indian Removal Act?
This president served two vice-president terms before becoming president.
Who is John Adams (2nd president)?
Texans declared independence from Mexico in this battle.
What is the Alamo?
This explorer found the Cumberland Gap, also known as the Warrior's Path, which led to modern-day Kentucky.
Who is Daniel Boone?
Lewis and Clark reached this body of water in their expedition.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Following the Indian Removal Act, multiple tribes were displaced in what as known as one of the largest forced migrations of all time.
What is Trail of Tears?
This president is responsible for the Monroe Doctrine, a policy of limiting European colonialism in the Americas.
Who is James Monroe (5th president)?
President Polk declared war on Mexico when they crossed this river.
What is the Rio Grande?
Following the purchase of The Louisiana Purchase, these two explorers went on an expedition West, funded by President Thomas Jefferson.
Who are Merriweather Lewis and William Clark?
This mountain range was the natural barrier for the initial 13 colonies.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
This settler and former governor of Indiana tricked Native Americans by buying their land for as little as one cent.
Who is William Henry Harrison?
He advocated for individual rights, freedom of thought, speech, and religion.
Who is Thomas Jefferson (3rd president)?
At this river, Mexico considered the borders of Mexico and America to meet.
What is the Nueces River?
This 16-year-old native woman served as interpreter to Lewis and Clark, all while carrying her infant on her back.
Who is Sacagawea?
This canal connects the Great Lakes, and opened up a waterway trade system.
What is the Erie Canal?
Who won at the battle of Tippecanoe?
Who are the settlers? (Tecumseh and his brother were defeated and the Shawnee village burned to the ground).
This president was an accomplished linguist, and spoke at least four languages fluently.
Who is John Quincy Adams (6th president)?
Texas waited nine years to become a state because it because of what controversial practice?
What is slavery?