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Louisiana Purchase
Vocabulary
Oregon Trail
United States Growth
Important Events
100
The president that purchased the land.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
100

19th-century belief that the United States was destined to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the North American continent.

What is Manifest Destiny?

100
The people on the Oregon Trail traveled by what
What is a wagon?
100

Louisiana Purchase did what to the size of the United States.

What is double the size?

100

The name given to the removal of Cherokees from their homelands.

What is Trail of Tears?

200
The land was purchased from this country
What is France?
200

The supreme power or authority of a state or nation to govern itself without external interference.

What is Sovereignty?

200

Name of the group of Mormons avoiding the exact Oregon trail?

Who are the Donner Party?

200

The direction the United States wanted to grow.

What is West?

200
The 1820 ruling that admitted Missouri as a slave state.
What is Missouri Compromise?
300
The amount of money the land was purchased for.
What is 15 million dollars?
300

Presidential Aid and Army general responsible of mapping out the newly purchased land.

Who are Lewis & Clark?

300
Name three hardships the poeple faced while travleing
What is disease, weather, rivers, mountains, accidents, and Indians?
300

The amount of states before the Missouri Compromise.

What is 22?

300

Discovery of gold in California leads to a massive influx of settlers, contributing to rapid population growth in the region.

What is the Gold Rush?

400
The year the land was purchased
What is 1803?
400

Known For: Advocating for American expansionism, leading the country during the Mexican-American War, Associated with Manifest Destiny

Who is James K. Polk?

400
Pioneers made an impact on the Native Americans. Name two ways this happened.
What is trading, diseases, and forcing them off their land?
400

The name of the Middle Colonies in the 13 Original States? 

What is New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey? 

400

Formally ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain and the United States



What is Treaty of Paris?

500
During the time of the Louisiana Purchase, United States was still having trouble with what country trying to claim part of North America.
What is Great Britian?
500

The temporary solution to an unbalanced conflict in 1820.

What is the Missouri Compromise?

500
Explain Manifest Destiny.
What is the belief that America should expand its limits?
500

Line that seperated the North and South.

What is Missouri Compromise line?

500

The overall issue that will lead to the Civil War.

What is Slavery?