Territories & Legislation
The land purchase made by Thomas Jefferson that doubled the size of the country overnight.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Discovered in California in the 1840s.
What is gold?
The invention that removes seeds from cotton.
What is the cotton gin?
Name of the piece of land Native Americans were relocated to.
What are reservations?
Name of the path that Harriet Tubman took slaves on in order to escape to the North to freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
Gold was discovered in this territory.
What is California?
The availability of this resource helped with building houses and businesses out in the western territories.
What is timber?
(Will also accept: wood, lumber, or trees)
The fastest mode of water transportation during Westward Expansion.
What is the steamboat?
The cause of population decline for Native Americans during Westward Expansion. (NAME ONE)
What is warfare and/or disease?
Name of the most well-known conductor of the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This territory became a republic for a short period of time before joining the United States as a state.
What is Texas?
Names of the two explorers sent by Thomas Jefferson to explore the Louisiana Territory.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
Worked with Cyrus McCormick to invent the reaper.
Who is Jo Anderson?
Chief of the Nez Perce that tried to flee to Canada with his tribe.
Who is Chief Joseph?
This document created the current government of the United States.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
Territory shared between the United States and Great Britain.
What is Oregon?
Where the Oregon Trail and the Santa Fe Trail began.
What is Missouri?
The fastest mode of land transportation during Westward Expansion.
What is the steam locomotive?
Battle that ended in the deaths of General Custer and his men against the Sioux.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Name of the suffragist that got a college in New York to accept women.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended this war in 1848.
What is the Mexican American War?
Manmade waterways used to move people and supplies.
What is a canal?
Someone who brings an idea to the market with the hope of gaining money.
What is an entrepreneur?
Process used by reformers to blend Native Americans into the general culture of the U.S.
What is assimilation?
Said that, "we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men and women are created equal."
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?