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64 Cards in this Set
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who got some friends and cleared the wilderness road |
Daniel Boone |
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what was the path called that Daniel Boone cleared |
wilderness road |
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what was the settlement in Kentucky named after Daniel Boone |
Boonesborough |
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Daniel Boone had been called what |
pioneer of pioneers |
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_____ became part of america after the war for independence |
northwest territory |
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congress passed laws that would bring order and government to the territory these laws were called |
land ordinance |
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what is a flatboat |
a long boat with a flat bottom |
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allowed the same freedom and democracy as the states to be present in the territories |
northwest ordinance of 1787 |
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who became our third president |
Thomas Jefferson |
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thomas Jefferson bought what |
the Louisiana territory |
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the ____ sold the Louisiana territory to Tomas Jefferson |
french |
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true or false
the Louisiana territory did not double the size of the united states |
false |
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president Jefferson chose what two people to lead a group on an expedition to explore this new land |
captain Meriwether lewis captain william clark |
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_____ translated the indian language for lewis and clark |
Sacagawea |
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who sold the Louisiana territory to the united states |
Napoleon Bonapart |
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the ____ warships began stopping american ships |
english |
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american ships had no respect on the seas since england was causing most of the problems the united states declared war on england starting _____ |
war of 1812 |
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in 1814 the british marched into ____ and burned it |
Washington D.C. |
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who was francis scott key |
an american lawyer |
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what did francis scott key want |
the release of an american prisoner from an english warship |
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francis scott key was apart of what battle |
battle of fort mc henry in baltimore |
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the sight of our battle torned flag inspired Francis Scott Key to write what |
The Star Spangled Banner |
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Who won the last battle of the war of 1812 |
Americans |
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Who won the war of 1812 |
nobody |
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t or f After three years of war each side did not make peace |
false |
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The ____ proved to herself and others that she was strong enough to protect herself |
United States |
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Who offered to buy Florida from Spain for 5 mil |
James Monroe |
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Spain accepted the offer and sold Florida in______ |
1819 |
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____ spread the gospel and taught many other methodist preachers to do it |
Francis Asbury |
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_____ would make the same circuit of towns preaching wherever they went |
circuit-riding preachers |
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One of the best known circuit riders was ____ who preached the gospel for over 50 years |
Peter Cartwright |
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For any years the spirit of revival was kept alive in America by ____ |
camp meetings |
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in 1833 a Mexican general named _____ took complete control of Mexico |
Santa Anna |
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in 1836 they declare ____ an independent country free from Mexico's rule |
texas |
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inside an old Spanish mission called the ____ 187 men gathered to fight Mexican soldiers |
Alamo |
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one group from Tennessee was led by a famous frontiersman _____ |
Davy Crocket |
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Texans led by _____ took the Mexican army by surprise in the battle of ______ |
general Sam Houston San Jacinto |
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___ was captured with Mexican army |
Santa Anna |
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Texas was considered ___ |
a free nation |
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who was the president of Texas |
Sam Houston |
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in 1845 Texas became the ____ state of America |
28th |
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what state claimed that the rio grande was her western boundary |
texas |
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what president sent an army to guard the rio grande boundary line that Texas claimed was hers |
James K. Polk |
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the Mexican war began in ____ and lasted for 2 years |
1846 |
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what did Mexico give the United states |
california, nevada, Utah, and parts of Arizona, new mexico, wyoming, colorado |
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what was it called when the united states agreed to pay mexico 15mil for land? |
mexican cession |
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what made the southern parts of what is now new mexico and arizona? |
gadsden purchase |
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one reason for making this purchase was to build a ____ though the southwest? |
railroad |
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in 1848 gols was discovered in california on _____ ranch |
john sutters |
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what were old miners often called? |
49ers |
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what is it called when a bunch of people rush for gold? |
gold rush |
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___ was so expensive that many men chose to live in tents |
lumber |
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what were towns with empty buildings where no one lived? |
ghost towns |
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In what year did california become the 31st state to join the union? |
1850 |
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Americans had become greatly interested in the land called _______ |
Oregon territory |
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the oregon territory would include what 3 states? |
oregon, washington, idaho |
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The most famous missionaries to oregon were ____ and his wife _____ |
Dr. Marcus Whitman, Narcissa Whitman |
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they worked hard to teach the _____ and they worked hard to bring pioneers to oregan |
indians |
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oregon bound pioneers travel to ____ where the oregon trail began |
Independence, Missouri |
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Who decided to wrote textbooks himself that would be truly American |
Noah Webster |
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Websters most famous book was the American spelling book nicknamed ___ |
blue-backed speller |
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Later Noah Webster also wrote the first_____ |
American Dictionary |
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_____ also wrote a series of textbooks |
William H McGuffey |
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Millions of American children in the 19th century went to one-room _____ |
schoolhouses |
