Important People
Acts, Treaties, and other Documents
War/Disagreements
Transportation/Expansion
100

I am the Native American woman who helped Lewis and Clark on their expedition.

Sacagawea

100

What was the purpose of the Missouri compromise and letting Maine come in as a free state?

Kept the balance of free and slave representatives in the senate.

100

The United States fought this country in the war of 1812.

Great Britain

100

This means of transportation was a way to connect the new west and the east.

The railroad
200

I wrote the poem after witnessing the Battle at Fort McHenry that later became the National Anthem.

Francis Scott Key

200

This stated that the US would stay out of foreign affairs and closed the Americans to further colonization.

The Monroe Doctrine

200

The Mexican-American War made Mexico smaller or bigger?

Smaller

200

What is the term for expansion in the US that American's believed they had the right to expand from "sea to shining sea?"

Manifest Destiny

300

I am the President who favored the removal of the Cherokee Natives and ignored the Chief Justice's Supreme Court order to allow the Natives to stay in their home land.

President Andrew Jackson

300

What was it called when Native Americans were expected to become similar to white Americans?

Assimilation

300

What did the British do to the U.S. capital during the War of 1812?

Burnt it

300

These two states were added to the Union because of the Missouri Compromise.

Missouri and Maine

400

I was the President that did not run for a third term to set the precedent that presidents are only able to be in office for two terms max.

Gdubs

400

President Jackson had this passed by congress in 1830 which removed Native Americans from their home land.

The Indian Removal Act

400

This is the Battle that Davy Crockett died in.

Battle of the Alamo

400

This was the nickname for people who moved out west to California in search of gold.

Miner forty-niners

500

I believed that the political and social structure of the US was through agriculture instead of industry and had a feud with Alexander Hamilton.

Thomas Jefferson

500

This is the treaty that ended the war with Mexico and gave the land of California to the United States.

The treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

500
This place is somewhere we should remember.

The Alamo

500

This is the mode of transportation Native Americans used on the Trail of Tears.

a) plane

b) train

c) on foot

c) on foot