Westward Expansion
Westward Expansion
Westward Expansion
Westward Expansion and Older
Westward Expansion and Older Units
100
First group to settle in Utah.
Who are Mormons?
100
Year of the California Gold Rush.
What is 1849?
100
Explorer who was hired by the Transylvania company to build a road through the Cumberland Gap in the Appalachian mountains.
Who is Daniel Boone?
100
Invented the Printing Press.
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
100
Blood thirsty warriors who burned villages in Russia to the ground.
Who are Mongols?
200
Explored the Arkansas River into Colorado. Has a mountain peak named after him.
Who is Zebulon Pike?
200
The city of Boonsboro is located in this state in the Appalachian Mountains.
What is Kentucky?
200
The state the Alamo is located in.
What is Texas?
200
This feudal class was valued for growing rice.
What are peasants?
200
Sent by Prince Vladimir to discover world religions, decided Greek Orthodox Christianity was the best.
Who are "10 Good and True Men"?
300
This mountain range acted as a barrier to westward expansion.
What are the Appalachian mountains?
300
New modes of transportation during the 1800's.
What are steamboat, canal, railroad, turnpike, and stagecoach?
300
President who bought the Louisiana Purchase from France.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
300
Considered themselves Emperors of Japan because they were descendants of Amaterasu.
Who are the Yamato clan?
300
Became ruler of England after the British Civil War.
Who is Oliver Cromwell?
400
Used trickery to gain Indian territory.
Who is William Henry Harrison?
400
Four rivers taken by Lewis and Clark to reach the Pacific Ocean.
What are Ohio, Missouri, Snake, and Columbia?
400
Purchase price (per acre) of the Louisiana Purchase.
What is 3 cents per acre?
400
Port city at the base of the Mississippi river that was important for trade. President Jefferson wanted to buy it from France.
What is New Orleans?
400
Tried to act like white settlers so that they didn't have to move off their land.
Who are the Five Civilized Tribes?
500
Indian chief who tried to unite all the Indian tribes.
Who is Tecumseh?
500
Required all Indians to move west of the Mississippi.
What is the Indian Removal act of 1830?
500
Shoshone woman who acted as a tour guide to Lewis and Clark.
Who is Sacagewea?
500
Invented the Steamboat.
Who is Robert Fulton?
500
General of Mexico's army. (HO HO HO)
Who is Santa Anna?