Exploration and Expansion in the US

A journey of exploration

• Forty-Niners

• Expedition

• Gold Rush

• Louisiana Purchase

A person who is among the first to explore or settle a new country or area.

• Erie Canal

• Alamo

• Sacagawea

• Pioneer

Plains

• mass migration to california

• Nickname for pioneers who migrated to California in search of gold.

• wide open grasslands.

• canal in New York State that connected great lakes to the Atlantic ocean.

Gold Rush

• Shoshone woman who aided explorers with communication and gathering food.

• mass migration of settlers to California in search of gold.

• route followed by western settlers to the Oregon Territory.

• conflict between two counties.

Sacagawea

• Shoshone woman who aided explorers with communication and gathering food.

• Conflict between Mexico and the US over ownership of Texas.

• route followed by western settlers to the Oregon Territory.

• a flower.

Mexican-American War

• War over the Louisiana Purchase.

• War with the French and Indians.

• Mass migration war with France.

• Conflict between Mexico and the US over ownership of Texas.

Alamo

• Fort in Kennesaw Georgia, site of a Spanish victory over North Carolina independence supporters in 1836.

• Fort in Alabama, site of a Texas victory over Georgian independence supporters in 1836.

• Fort in San Antonio, Texas, site of a Mexican victory over Texan independence supporters in 1836.

• Fort in Cobb County, site of a Chalker victory over Pitner's independence supporters in 1836.

Louisiana Purchase

• large oxen purchase form France that double the size of the United States.

• large river purchase form France that double the size of the United States.

• large land purchase form France that double the size of the United States.

• large wagon purchase form France that double the size of the United States.

Forty-Niners

• Nickname for pioneers who migrated to California in search of gold.

• Nickname for Bell's class who migrated to Georgia in search of gold

• Nickname for buffalo who migrated to California in search of gold

• Nickname for Native Americans who migrated to California in search of gold.

Erie Canal

• Canal in Idaho State that connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic.

• Canal in Boston State that connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic.

• Canal in Wisconsin State that connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic.

• Canal in New York State that connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic.