People
This person joined the Lewis and Clark expedition and helped them reach the Pacific
Who was Sacagawea?
This purchase of land doubled the size of the United States
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This invention significantly increased the use of slaves by making the harvesting of cotton significantly more profitable.
The idea behind this 1872 painting
What is Manifest Destiny?
The trail used by Native Americans to get to Indian Territory after being forced from their homes by the United States Government is now called _______ by historians.
In 1803 the Louisiana Territory was purchased from this country.
What is France?
This piece of technology was a boom to the economy and transportation in New York and the Great Lakes
What is the Erie Canal?
To Americans in the 19th Century, Manifest Destiny meant that Americans were __________ to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
What is Chosen by a higher power OR Destined?
This President sent Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery to explore and map the Louisiana Territory
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This mountain ranges was the greatest challenge to settlers moving to the west on the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
The discovery of this resource in 1849 caused a massive migration of people to California.
What is Gold?
This war included events like the burning of the Capitol and White House, the battle of New Orleans, and the writing of the Star Spangled Banner
What is the War of 1812?
This explorer has a peak named after them in the Colorado Rocky Mountains?
Who is Zebulon Pike?
The United States initially didn't want to add this territory to the country because it would upset the balance of free and slave states
This technology helped to connect the Midwest to the East Coast via the Great Lakes
What is the Erie Canal?
What is expand to the Pacific?
This President pushed through the Indian Removal Act of 1830 which forced Native Americans on the East Coast to move to Indian Territory (Present Day Oklahoma)
Who was Andrew Jackson?
The population of California grew rapidly during this 1849 event.
What is the California Gold Rush?
This technology greatly impacted Native Americans in the plains by limiting their land and decreasing their food supply and resources
What are railroads?
This treaty authorized the US to pay Mexico $15 Million to acquire the New Mexico Territory (present day NM, AZ, UT, NV), Set the US/Mexican Border at the Rio Grande, and ended the Mexican American War.
What was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?