What is the name of the territory
the was Purchased from France
during Thomas Jefferson's
presidency?
Louisiana Purchase
Who were the men that
Thomas Jefferson sent to
explore the Louisiana
Purchase?
Merriweather
Lewis & William
Clark
Who explored the land and
waterways from the Mississippi
River to the Pacific Ocean?
Lewis & Clark
What waterway did Lewis and
Clark explore that leads into
the Pacific Ocean?
Columbia River
What territory did Spain give to
the U.S. through a treaty?
Florida
What territory was added to
the U.S. after it became an
independent republic?
Texas
Which territory was divided by
the United States and Great
Britain in a treaty?
Oregon
Which territory doubled the
size of the United States?
Louisiana
Purchase
What territories was added to the
United States after the MexicanAmerican War?
California and
Southwest
Territories
What territory is represented
by the letter L on the
Promethean Board Map?
Florida
What territory is represented by
the letter N on the Promethean
Board Map?
Louisiana
Purchase
What territory is represented
by the letter K on the
Promethean Board Map?
Texas
What territory is represented by
the letter J on the Promethean
Board Map?
California (or
California and
Southwest
Territories
What territory is represented
by the letter M on the
Promethean Board Map?
Oregon
The 13 colonies is represented by
what letter on the Promethean Board
Map?
Knowledge of overland trails
(Oregon Trail and Santa Fe Trail)
are examples of what type of
factors that influenced westward
expansion...Geographic or
Economic?
F
Geographic
Factors
The land gained from the Treaty
of Paris (after the Revolutionary
War) is represented by what letter
on the Promethean Board Map?
The California Gold Rush,
logging and farming are all
examples of which type of
factor that influenced
westward
expansion...Geographic or
Economic?
G
Economic Factors
The availability of cheap,
fertile land is an example of
which type of factor that
influenced westward
expansion...Geographic or
Economic?
What is the belief that expansion
was for the good of the country
and it was the right of the U.S.?
Manifest Destiny
Population growth in which area
was a factor in westward
expansion?
Population growth
Examples of cheaper and faster Canals and
in the eastern states. transportation that helped lead Steamboats
to westward expansion include
what?
True or False? Run-away slaves
moved west to find freedom.
True
What group of people were
forced further west as the U.S.
gained more territory?
Oregon
Andrew Jackson took over 2
Spanish forts in what is now
which state?
Florida
How much did the U.S. pay
France for the Louisiana
Territory?
$15 Million
(about 3 cents per
acre)
President Polk's slogan "54
degrees, 40 minutes or fight" is
talking about the border dispute
between the U.S. and Great
Britain over which territory ?
Who was the leader of the "Lone
Star State" that talked the people
into joining the U.S. as a state?
Sam Houston
Geographic
Native Americans