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Daniel Boone
Gold Rush
Oregon Trail
Dred Scot
Compromise
100
This is what Daniel Boone's Wilderness Road cut through.
What is the Cumberland Gap?
100
This is why the federal government began building the National Road (Wilderness Trail).
What is to move settlers and goods across the country?
100
These are the two reasons Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark to explore the Louisiana Territory.
What are to find a water route connecting east and west, and to get information about lands so settlers could move there?
100
These are the lands Zebulon Pike explored.
What is Spanish territory in the Southwest?
100
This physical feature stopped many colonists from moving west.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
200
This explains why Kansas came to be called 'Bleeding Kansas.'
What is pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces fought to control the government?
200
This is what the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 made possible.
What is the creation of several new states?
200
This is the route taken by many settlers who traveled to the Northwest in the 1840s.
What is Oregon Trail?
200
This is what the Mexican government did that made the Texans fight for their independence.
What is they enforced the law that outlawed slavery?
200
This is why people were willing to risk the dangers of the Oregon Trail to make the journey west.
What is they wanted to make a new life?
300
This explains why the annexation of Texas to the United States delayed for 9 years.
What is the U.S. wanted to keep the balance between slave and free states?
300
This Supreme Court decision said slaves had no rights and could be taken anywhere in the United States.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
300
This is the group of settlers who moved to the western frontier and beyond after the Revolutionary War
What is Pioneers?
300
Americans moved to Texas in the 1830s to for this reason.
What is to claim more land on which to grow cotton?
300
This is the main cause of death along the trails to the West.
What is sickness and accidents?
400
This is what happened to the Native Americans of the Southeast under President Jackson's leadership.
What is they were forced to move west of the Mississippi River?
400
This said that slaves who escaped were property that had to returned to their owners.
What is Fugitive Slave Act?
400
This is the idea that Americans had the God given right to expand and claim lands from coast to coast
What is Manifest Destiny?
400
This was the basis of the United States' claim to the Oregon Territory.
What is the explorations of Lewis and Clark?
400
This explains why President Jefferson wanted to buy Louisiana from the French.
What is to help farmers ship their crops to market through New Orleans?
500
The Cherokee attempted to protect their rights to their lands by doing this.
What is by taking their case to the Supreme Court?
500
This was the Cherokee's 800-mile journey to Indian Territory.
What is Trail of Tears?
500
This is why the United States tried to purchase a portion of California from Mexico.
What is to have a port city on the Pacific Ocean?
500
This is why the United States wanted to purchase Florida.
What is to prevent Native Americans from hiding out in Florida?
500
This was the effect of the Louisiana Purchase.
What is it doubled the land area of the United States?