Unit 5: Early Republic

What are the causes of the Louisiana Purchase?

• The British gave the land to the U.S

• The U.S acquired land in the war of 1812

• Thomas Jefferson wanted access to the ports in New Orleans

• Napoleon needed money and wanted to sell the Louisiana Territory

What are the causes of the War of 1812?

• British were impressing American seamen

• France wanted to control trade in the U.S

• British were giving Native Americans weapons to fight white settlers

• British were seizing American ships

• France wanted the Louisiana Territory back

What are some effects of the Louisiana Purchase?

• The British seized American ships

• Native Americans were sent back to Africa

• The U.S doubled its size

• Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark to explore the Louisiana Territory

• The French stopped trading with America

What were causes of the War of 1812?

• British were impressing American seamen

• France wanted the Louisiana Territory back from the U.S

• British were seizing American ships

• British were giving Native Americans weapons to fight the white settlers

• The U.S stopped trading with France

What was the Indian Removal Act?

• An act that allowed the British to give Native Americans weapons

• An act that allowed the government to move Native Americans to the West

• An act that allowed the government to send Native Americans to Africa

• An act that allowed the government to move Native Americans to Canada

An organization established whose purpose was to send free African Americans to the continent of Africa

• precedent

• Lewis and Clark Expedition

• Louisiana Purchase

• Indian Removal Act

• American Colonization Society

The cause of the Louisiana Purchase includes

• America’s desire to have control of the New Orleans ports along the Mississippi River

• America’s desire for independence.

• To use the new land as a place to move the Native Americans to.

• A safeguard against British attacks during the War of 1812.

The cause of the Indian Removal Act includes

• American settlers wanted to build a bridge

• The Native Americans refused to assimilate to American culture.

• The government discovered that the Eastern land was valuable (cotton + gold)

• The Native Americans refused to free their slaves.

Slave-owning Americans supported the migration of free African Americans to Africa because

• they felt that everyone deserves equal rights.

• they feared that free African Americans in the U.S. would revolt

• they supported the ending of slavery.

• they did not think that white Americans and free African Americans could coexist

What president completed the Louisiana Purchase?

• George Washington

• John Adams

• Thomas Jefferson

• James Madison