westward expansion

Which President made the Louisiana Purchase?

• Madison
• Adams
• Jefferson
• Monroe

Who did President Thomas Jefferson send to explore the land of the Louisiana Purchase?

• Washington and Adams
• Madison and Monroe
• Lewis and Clark
• John Smith and John Rolfe

When President Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Territory, how did that change our country?

• More people to feed
• Doubled the size of our country
• Started a war
• Got Jefferson fired.

Who were the 49ers?

• Gold miners
• Locals of California during the gold rush.
• Football tram
• The boom-town

Why did the United States purchase Louisiana?

• The new land allowed room for the population to expand.
• More land made the United States a stronger nation.

The 19th-century belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.

• Due Process

• Manifest Destiny

• American Progress

• Mercantilism

Acquisition of a territory by the United States from France in 1803. Doubled the size of the U.S.

• Louisiana Purchase

• Gadsden Purchase

• Mexican Cession

• Adams Onis Treaty

To give up power of a territory

• Annex

• Secede

• Cede

• Produce

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The discover of gold in the California territory leads to a massive immigration of settlers onto the land to get rich quick

• Gold Rush

• Oregon Trail

• Mormon movement

• Crypto Craze

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The name given to the group of pioneers who went to California during the Gold Rush

• Forty Niners

• Golden Nuggets

• Golden Arches

• Seventy Sixers