KS History Chapter 3

Chapter 3

Exploration & Expansion

3.1 Key Ideas

• In 1803, the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France.

• President Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark to explore the Louisiana Territory and find a water passage to the ocean.

• After Lewis & Clark, other explorers like Zebulon Pike and Stephen Long began traveling through the Central Plains.

3.1 Vocabulary

Multiple Choice

present or available in large amounts

• abundant

• botanical

• cartographer

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relating to plants or plant life

• abundant

• botanical

• cartographer

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a person skilled in making maps

• abundant

• botanical

• cartographer

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a flowing together of two or more streams

• confluence

• subsistence

• uninhabitable

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having enough food or resources to live

• subsistence

• confluence

• uninhabitable

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not safe or well suited for living in; unlivable

• confluence

• subsistence

• uninhabitable

3.1 Questions

3.1 Key Ideas

• In 1803, the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France.

• President Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark to explore the Louisiana Territory and find a water passage to the ocean.

• After Lewis & Clark, other explorers like Zebulon Pike and Stephen Long began traveling through the Central Plains.

Open Ended

What was the Lousiana Purchase?

Open Ended

What is cartography?

Open Ended

What was the Corps of Discovery?

3.2 Key Ideas

• To free up land for white Americans in the East, the US government passed the Indian Removal Act.

• More than 25 American Indian tribes were forced to move to reservations in Kansas.

• Thousands of Americans traveled west along the Oregon-California and Santa-Fe Trails, which ran through Kansas.

• The US government built forts on the frontier to keep the peace.

3.2 Vocabulary

Multiple Choice

to add or take over a new territory

• annex

• assimilate

• emigrant

• eminent domain

• manifest destiny

Multiple Choice

to absorb or conform to the customs and attitudes of a particular cultural group

• annex

• assimilate

• emigrant

• eminent domain

• manifest

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someone who leaves one country and settles in another

• annex

• assimilate

• emigrant

• eminent domain

• manifest destiny

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the right of a government to take private property for public use

• annex

• assimilate

• emigrant

• eminent domain

• manifest destiny

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the belief that it was the God-given right of the United States to control all of the land from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean

• annex

• assimilate

• emigrant

• eminent domain

• manifest destiny

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someone sent to do work for religion, like convincing people to join the religion or helping the sick

• missionary

• ration

• reservation

• sanitation

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to restrict the amount of goods available to buy or use

• missionary

• ration

• reservation

• sanitation

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an area of land set aside by the US government for Native Americans to live on

• missionary

• ration

• reservation

• sanitation

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relating to health, cleanliness, disposal of garbage or waste

• missionary

• ration

• reservation

• sanitation

3.2 Key Ideas

• To free up land for white Americans in the East, the US government passed the Indian Removal Act.

• More than 25 American Indian tribes were forced to move to reservations in Kansas.

• Thousands of Americans traveled west along the Oregon-California and Santa-Fe Trails, which ran through Kansas.

• The US government built forts on the frontier to keep the peace.

3.2 Questions

Open Ended

During the Indian Relocation, who was legally allowed to live in Kansas?

Open Ended

What was the primary purpose of the Oregon Trail?

Open Ended

What was the primary purpose of the Santa Fe Trail?

3.3 Key Ideas

• By the early 1800's, the issue of slavery sharply divided the country.

• The Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 tried to balance the number of slave states and free states.

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed the people of Kansas to decide whether slavery would exist in the new state.

3.3 Vocabulary

Multiple Choice

a person or political movement that argues for ending slavery

• abolitionist

• cash crops

• expansionist

• indentured servants

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a crop that is grown for profit rather than use by the grower

• abolitionist

• cash crops

• expansionist

• indentured servants

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the practice or policy of territorial or economic expansion

• abolitionist

• cash crops

• expansionist

• indentured servants

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in colonial times, a person who agreed to work, for a period of 4-10 years, for someone who paid their travel expenses to a colony

• abolitionist

• cash crops

• expansionist

• indentured servants

Multiple Choice

whether something is right or wrong

• morality

• plantation

• popular sovereignty

• repeal

• slave codes

Multiple Choice

a farm designed to grow crops on a large scale

• morality

• plantation

• popular sovereignty

• repeal

• slave codes

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a political concept that gives authority over a state or territory to the people who live there, especially concerning slavery.

• morality

• plantation

• popular sovereignty

• repeal

• slave codes

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to cancel or overturn a law

• morality

• plantation

• popular sovereignty

• repeal

• slave codes

Multiple Choice

laws that defined slaves as the property of slaveowners and which greatly limited black freedoms.

• morality

• plantation

• popular sovereignty

• repeal

• slave codes

3.3 Questions

3.3 Key Ideas

• By the early 1800's, the issue of slavery sharply divided the country.

• The Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 tried to balance the number of slave states and free states.

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed the people of Kansas to decide whether slavery would exist in the new state.

Open Ended

What led to the growth of slavery throughout the US?

Open Ended

What did abolitionists push for?

Open Ended

What was the compromise of 1850?