Louisiana Purchase / Lewis and Clark
The Interpreter on the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Who was Sacagawea?
The person who led the army in the fight against Mexico.
Who was Sam Houston?
The area of land that Indians were forced to move to.
What is the Indian Territory?
Making many products at once
What is mass production?
One of the first of a group of people to enter a region.
Who was a pioneer?
The 30 people traveling with Lewis and Clark.
Who is Corps of Discovery?
The name of the treaty that ended the war between Britian and the United States.
What was Treaty of Ghent?
The name of the trail that many Indians were forced to travel to Indian Territory.
The person who invented the cotton gin and the idea of interchangeable parts.
Who was Eli Whitney?
What is a frontier?
The United States bought land for $15 million from France. The land doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Francis Scott Key wrote a poem called _________.
What is The Star-Spangled Banner?
The Oregon Trail was a difficult journey because...
What is pionieers faced with: disease, lack of food and water, injuries, and bad weather on the Oregon Trail?
This changed the way people worked and the goods that were produced in the United States. It greatly effected transportation in the United States.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
A line of covered wagons that all moved together.
What is the wagon train?
Lewis and Clark were asked by President Jefferson to do these three things.
What is gather information about landforms, plants, and animals, study the cultures of the Indians, and explore the Missouri and Columbia Rivers?
The land south of the border between the western United States and Canada.
What is the Oregon Territory?
An Indian chief who led the fight against the Indian Removal Act.
Who is John Ross?
Many people rushed to California in 1849.
What is to find gold?
Parts made by a machine to be the exact same size and shape.
What is interchangeable parts?
Fun Fact: In 1855, the U.S. government imported camels from Egypt for travel in the Southwest, believingthey were better suited for the heat than horses.
What is Camel Corps?
When American Navy sailors were captured and forced to work on British ships.
What was impressment?
The law required all Indians to move west of the Mississippi River.
What was the Indian Removal Act?
Someone who went to mine for gold in California in 1849.
Who is a forty-niner?
Towns that populations grew very quickly.
What is Boomtowns?