Westward Expansion

What was a 49er?

• professional football player

• person who panned for gold in California

• person who traveled the Oregon Trail

• American Indian who had to travel west

Lewis and Clark went on an "expedition". What was is a synonym for expedition?

• journey

• campaign

• trail

• visit

Largest piece of land purchased in American history from France

• 13 colonies

• New Orleans port

• Louisiana Purchase

• Oregon Territory

Name of the US president who purchased the land from Napoleon?

• Washington

• Monroe

• Jefferson

• Jackson

The journey from Independence, Missouri to the Oregon Territory

• Oregon Trail

• California Trail

• Trail of Tears

• Great Migration

Significantly increased the population and land in California

• Lewis and Clark Expedition

• Oregon Trail

• Louisiana Purchase

• Gold Rush

Washington D.C. was captured and burned to the grown during this war

• French and Indian War

• War of 1812

• Revolutionary War

• The Alamo

The event where the American Indians were forced off their land and made to travel west where many died.

• Trail of Tears

• The Great Trail

• Journey West

• Oregon Trail

Two men who Thomas Jefferson asked to explore the territory west of the Mississippi River

• Thomas and Jackson

• Lewis and Jackson

• Lewis and Clark

• Larry and Clark

Famous battle against the Mexican army that was lost by the Texans in 1863

• Battle of Little Bighorn

• The Alamo

• Yorktown

• Mexican War