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This person arranged the Louisiana Purchase as an agreement with France.
Thomas Jefferson
These two people explored the Louisiana Purchase and the lands west to Pacific Ocean.
Lewis & Clark
First governor of the state of Tennessee.
John Sevier
One of the best known pioneers to cross the Appalachians was______
Daniel Boone
_______was a Shoshone woman.
Saccagawea
This state became the first state west of the Appalachian Mountains, in 1792.
Kentucky
Captain Zebulon Pike led an expedition to explore the southwest area of the Louisiana Purchase. He saw a blue mountain, now named Pike's Peak in ___________
Colorado
The British Navy forced Americans to work on their ships. This is called _________________
Imprisonment
Francis Scott Key wrote the "
Star Spangled Banner" during the attack on
Baltimore Maryland
John Ross went to fight in the Supreme Court against the Indian Removal Act, the Cherokee nation won, and President Jackson decided to ignore the ruling by the Supreme Court forcing the Cherokees to move to what now is the state of:
Oklahoma
The Indian Removal Act forced Native Americans to
relocate along the Mississippi River
A human made waterway that connects two bodies of water is called:
canal
The development of _________improved life for many Americans by making travel and shipment of goods across the land easier and cheaper.
Railroads
The invention of the cotton gin increased the number of ________that worked on a plantation because it___________
slaves
gave them money
When land is added on , like Texas joining the United States in 1845 it is called _________
Annexea
A pass through the Appalacian Mountains that the pioneers used to move west is called a :
GAP
Another term for crossing a river without a bridge is to _________the river.
ford
After the war of 1812 Americans felt a pride in the country called ____________because they had defeated the British.
Nationlism
Cession by the Mexican government after the Mexican-American war caused __________
to increase its size in the southwest
forty-niners
gold-seakers
railroad engines
locomotive
The change in manufacturing that allowed workers to make goods more quickly.
The Industrial Revolution
A waterway created by people that connects two bodies of water.
canal
What happens because of an action?
consequence
An early settler of an area
pioneer
Which group of people were forced from their lands because of westward expansion?
The Native Americans
The Oregon Trail starting point was
Missouri
Trails like the Oregon Trail were so important to the movement of pioneers because
they created towns and cities
How did the Louisiana Purchase effect the United States?
It allowed the US control over all the southeast, which doubled the size of the US.
Which major obstacle did Lewis and Clark find on their way to the Pacific Ocean?
Rocky Mountains
What was the Indian Removal Act?
When President Andrew Jackson didn't listen to the Supreme Court, and forced the Cherokees to leave their homes.