Louisiana Purchase
The president that purchased the land.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter to his person asking him to explore the new land.
Who is Meriwether Lewis?
These were two laws passed by the U.S. Congress in 1793 and 1850 that aimed to ensure the return of enslaved people who had escaped to free states
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
The Louisiana Purchase did what to the size of the United States.
What is double it.
The name givento the removal of Cherokees from their homelands to what is now Oklahoma.
What is Trail of Tears?
The land was purchased from this country
What is France?
Lewis and Clark traveled mainly on what river.
What is Missouri River?
Name of the act that allowed residents of Kansas and Nebraska to decide in 1854, via a democratic vote, if they would enter the Union as a free or slave state.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The growth of industry had what effect on education?
What is increased demand for education.
The 1820 ruling that admitted Missouri as a slave state.
What is Missouri Compromise?
The amount of money the land was purchased for.
What is 15 million dollars?
Explain the reason for taking the journey.
What is finding a water route to the Pacific Ocean and finding out about animals, plants, land, and Indians?
The place where Jefferson Davis decided to start the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
Name three factors that helped cities grow.
What is railroads, steamboats, canals, and industry.
This opened so that goods could be transported by water from the Great Lakes to New York City.
What is Erie Canal?
The year the land was purchased
What is 1803?
The number of months it took them to get to the Pacific Ocean.
What is 18 months?
What is Bleeding Kansas?
Eli Whitney helped invent what industrial machine and industrial good that helped grow American cities.
Hint: It helped refine an agricultural product.
The Cotton Gin and Interchangeable Parts.
When Great Britain and America went to war over land it was called ___________.
What is War of 1812?
During the time of the Louisiana Purchase, United States was still having trouble with what country trying to claim part of North America.
What is Great Britain.
This is the fort where they met Sacagawea.
What is Fort Mandan?
A Supreme Court case did a southern slave sue for his freedom after he was moved to a northern state.
What is the Dred Scott case?
The ability to produce many goods of one kind quickly and efficiently is called ______.
Mass production
Missouri became a state in the year _____.
What is 1821?