Vocabulary
What is a mission?
He helped encourage settlement of the West by clearing a pass through the Appalachian Mountains
Who is Daniel Boone?
What is an Inn?
These men explored the Pacific Ocean, Continental Divide and Rocky Mountains.
Who were Lewis and Clark?
This group of people resented the settlers because the settlers kept taking their lands and forcing them to move to certain areas.
Who are the Native Americans?
Where newly settled areas meet unsettled, but not necessarily uninhabited, areas
What is the frontier?
She helped guide Lewis and Clark through unfamiliar land.
Who is Sacagawea?
a railroad engine
What is a Locomotive?
This canal inspired the building of other canals around the country.
What is the Erie Canal?
What type of new transportation in the 1800s
1) didn't freeze in the winter
2) could travel over mountains
3) were faster than other travel at the time
What is the Railroad?
What is latitude?
He tried to unite the Native Americans against the Americans.
Who is Tecumseh?
Makes it difficult for people to travel in America in the early 1700s.
What are Bad Roads?
This territory/country was valuable to America for the fur of its animals.
What is Oregon Country?
In this time and place merchants had no problem selling their wares (shovels, pans, soap, etc) for very high prices.
What is the California Gold Rush?
a person who translates from one language to another.
What is an interpreter?
Which group of people did the issue of slavery cause them to fight a war in one country and not be admitted into another for 9 years.
Who are the Texans?
(in Mexico they were supposed to become loyal Mexican citizens by not owning slaves, becoming Roman Catholic, and observing Mexican Law.)
(The US didn't want another slave state so they had to wait 9 years to become a state)
Manifest Destiny
new farmland
a new start
What are three reasons people wanted to go west?
Two areas President Polk hoped to add to the US with the Mexican War.
What are California and New Mexico?
a formal agreement between two or more groups, especially countries.
What is a treaty?
a sense or belief a person has that a certain action is right or wrong.
What is a conscience?
This person viewed the Battle of the Alamo as a representation of the conflict between the Texans and Mexicans. "Remember the Alamo!!"
Who is Sam Houston?
Which type of river travel was better for carrying goods both upstream and downstream?
What is the Steamboat?
Strategy used by the US to avoid another war with Great Britain over Oregon Country.
What is Compromise?
To leave one country to settle permanently in another.
What is emigrate?