Westward Expansion 12/5 Review 11/6

Belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.

• Manifest Destiny

• Eastward expansion

• Railroad systems

Third president of the United States who bought Louisiana from the French because we needed the port of New Orleans.

• John Adams

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

Ruler of France, sold the Louisiana territory to the United States

• Thomas Jefferson

• King George III

• Napoleon

Lewis and Clark were explorers who were chosen to explore the

• Oregon Trail

• Hudson River

• New Orleans

Native-American woman who interpreted for the Corps of Discovery and helped them survive

• Mary Washington

• Dolley Madison

• Sacajewea

Begins in the Rocky Mountains and flows to the Mississippi River, Lewis and Clark explored it.

• Missouri River

• Lake Superior

• Mississippi River

As people moved west they traveled along the

• Bigfoot Trails

• Idaho Trail

• Oregon Trail

Britain was blockading the coast of America and stopping trade with

• Britain

• France

• Spain

The “Star Spangled Banner” was written by Francis Scott Key during the

• Revolutionary War

• French and Indian War

• War of 1812

The White House , Capitol building, and other government buildings were burned by the

• Canadians

• French

• British