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49 Cards in this Set
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land with few people west of settled areas |
frontier |
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a long boat with a flat bottom |
flatboat |
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1 who rules by force and allows his people little or no freedom |
dictator |
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former mining towns full of empty building where no one lives |
ghost - towns |
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pioneer who began the settlement of Kentucky; the pioneer of pioneers |
Daniel Boone
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trail cleared by Daniel Boone in Kentucky |
Wilderness road |
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law that divided the Northwest Territory into townships and demanded that 1 section in each township be set aside for a public school |
land ordinance of 1785 |
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law that guaranteed that the freedom and democracy the original states enjoyed would also be present in the territorys |
Northwest Ordinance of 1787 |
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section of land purchased from France by president Jefferson that doubled the size of the United States |
Louisiana Purchase |
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young men who led an expedition to explore the Louisiana Purchase |
Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark |
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Indian woman who went with the Lewis and Clark expedition to translate the Indian language |
Sacagawea |
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French ruler who sold the Louisiana Territory to the United States |
Napoleon Bonaparte |
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war fought between the United States and England; neither country won the war |
War of 1812 |
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man who wrote the Star-Spangled Banner |
Francis key Scott |
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president who purchased Florida from Spain |
President James Monero |
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famous circuit-riding preacher |
Francis Asbury |
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one of the best-known citrcuit-riding preachers of the second great awakening |
Peter Cartwright |
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Mexican diractor who tried to crush the Texas rebellion |
General Santa Anna |
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famous frontiersman who died fighting the Alamo |
Davy Crockett |
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leader of the Texans in their fight for independence |
General Sam Houston |
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president during the Mexican War |
President James K. Polk |
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section of land in the Southwest purchased from Mexico in order to build a railroad |
Gadsden Purchase |
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man on whose land gold was discovered in California in 1848 |
John Sutter |
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nickname for the people who flocked to California to find gold in 1849 |
Forty-niners |
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name given to the great movement of gold seekers to California |
Gold Rush |
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husband and wife who were missionaries to the Indians in Oregon |
Marcus and Narcissa Whiteman |
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writer of the first American dictionary and history and reading textbooks, including the Blue -backed Speller |
Noah Webster |
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author of a series of readers that were used in American schools |
William H. Mcguffy |
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pioneer settlement in Kentucky named after Daniel Boone |
Boonesborough |
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during a siege on this fort, ''the Star-Spangled Banner''was written |
Fort MC Henry |
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large piece of land eventually became the states of Ohio,Indiana,Illinois,Michi-gan,Wisconsin,and part of Minnesota |
Northwest Territory |
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Spanish mission where 187 men were fighting for Texas were killed by Mexicans |
Alamo |
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place were the Texans defeated the Mexican army |
San Jacinto |
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river that forms the border between TEXAS AND MEXICO |
Rio Grande |
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land that eventually became the states of Oregon ,Washington,and Idaho,as well as Montana,and Wyoming |
Oregon Territory |
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louisiana Purchase |
1803 |
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War of 1812 |
1812-1815 |
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Florida is Purchase from Spain |
1819 |
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Mexican war |
1846-1848 |
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gold is discovered in California |
1848 |
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Gadsden Purchase |
1853 |
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what famous pioneer opened up kentucky to settlers? |
Daniel Boone |
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What trail into kentucky did daniel boone clear? |
Wilderness Road |
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What states were formed from the northwest territory? |
Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, and part if Minnesota |
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Who wrote the star spangled banner and during what battle? |
Franis Scott Key during the battle of Fort McHenry |
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What city was burned during the war of 1812? |
Washington DC |
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Which president purchased the Louisiana Territory? |
President Jefferson |
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Which territory did president Monroe buy from Spain? |
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What were the circuit-riding preachers?
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Men who rode on horseback preaching everywhere they went
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