Louisiana Purchase
By buying the Louisiana Territory, The United States _____ in size.
What is doubled in size?
Texas was annexed (added) to the United States in _____.
What is 1845?
The trail used to travel west to Oregon and California
What is the Oregon Trail?
President during the Indian Removal Act
Who is Andrew Jackson?
Name of the people who rushed to California for the Gold Rush
What is 49ers?
The Louisiana Territory was purchased from this country.
What is France?
Texas belonged to this country before it became a part of the United States.
What is Mexico?
Some of the first people to settle in a new area are called ______.
What are pioneers?
The reason white settlers wanted the Indians to move from the South Eastern United States to reservations in Oklahoma
They wanted the fertile lands to farm and make money
The California Gold Rush began in this year
What is 1849?
The name of the group who Thomas Jefferson sent to explore the Louisiana Territory.
What is the Corps of Discovery?
What is the Alamo?
Most pioneers traveled about _______miles per day on the Oregon Trail unless the weather was bad.
What is 10-15 miles?
Name of the place designated for Indians to live
What are reservations?
True or False: Most Gold Miners struck rich during the Gold Rush
FALSE
The Louisiana Territory cost _______dollars?
What is $15 million dollars?
The Alamo is located here.
What is San Antonio, Texas?
Pioneers traveled in these.
What are covered wagons?
Name of the terrible journey taken by 70,000 Indians
What is the Trail of Tears?
Name 3 items that were sold for very high prices during the gold rush
What is a mining pan, pickaxe, and a shovel?
Name of the Shoshone Indian guide who help the Corps of Discovery navigate through the Louisiana Territory to the Pacific Ocean.
In 1836, Texas declared its independence from Mexico and attempted to form a new government. Mexico sent soldiers to stop them and war broke out between Mexico and the United States. The fighting lasted about fifteen months.
What was the name of this war?
What is the Mexican-American War?
A special device that measured how many miles a covered wagon traveled.
What is roadometer?
What is the Buffalo?
Gold was first discovered by this person
Who is James Marshall?