U.S. chapter 12

Question 1

frontier

Answer 1

land with a few people of west settled areas

Question 2

flatboat

Answer 2

long boat with flat bottom

Question 3

dictator

Answer 3

one who rules by force and allows his people little or no freedom

Question 4

ghost towns

Answer 4

former mining towns full of empty buildings where no one lives

Question 5

Daniel Boone

Answer 5

pioneer who began the settlement of Kentucky; called “the pioneer of pioneers”

Question 6

Wilderness Road

Answer 6

trail cleared by Daniel Boone in Kentucky

Question 7

Land Ordinance of 1785

Answer 7

law that divided the northwest territory into townships and demanded that one section of land in each township be set aside for a public school

Question 8

Northwest Ordinance of 1787

Answer 8

law that guaranteed that the freedom and democracy the original states enjoyed would also be present in the territories

Question 9

Louisiana Purchase

Answer 9

section of land purchased from France by President Jefferson that doubled the size of the united states

Question 10

Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark

Answer 10

young men who led an expedition to explore the Louisiana Purchase

Question 11

Sacagawea

Answer 11

Indian women who went with the Lewis and Clark expedition to translate the Indian language

Question 12

Napoleon Bonaparte

Answer 12

French ruler who sold the Louisiana Territory to the United States

Question 13

War of 1812

Answer 13

war fought between the United States and England; neither country won the war

Question 14

Francis Scott Key

Answer 14

man who wrote “The Star Spangled Banner” during the battle of Fort McHenry

Question 15

President James Monroe

Answer 15

President who purchased Florida from Spain

Question 16

Francis Asbury

Answer 16

famous circuit-riding preacher

Question 17

Peter Cartwright

Answer 17

one of the best circuit - riding preacher

Question 18

General Santa Anna

Answer 18

Mexican dictator who tried to crush the Texans rebellion

Question 19

Davy Crockett

Answer 19

famous frontiersman who died fighting at the Alamo

Question 20

General Sam Houston

Answer 20

leader of Texans in their fight for Independence

Question 21

President James K. Polk

Answer 21

President during the Mexican War

Question 22

Gadson Purchase

Answer 22

section of land in the Southwest Purchased from Mexico in order to build a railroad

Question 23

John Sutter

Answer 23

man on whose land gold discovered in California in 1848

Question 24

forty-niners

Answer 24

nickname for the people who flocked to California to find gold in 1849

Question 25

gold rush

Answer 25

name given to the great movement of gold seekers to California

Question 26

Marcus and Narcissa Whitman

Answer 26

husband and wife who were missionaries to the Indians in Oregon

Question 27

Noah Webster

Answer 27

writer of the first American dictionary and history and reading textbook, including the Blue-backed Speller

Question 28

William H. McGuffey

Answer 28

author of a series of readers that were used in American schools

Question 29

Boonesborough

Answer 29

pioneer settlement in Kentucky named after Daniel Boone

Question 30

Fort McHenry

Answer 30

during a siege on this fort, "The Star- Spangled Banner was written

Question 31

Northwest Territory

Answer 31

large piece of land that eventually became the states of Ohio, Indiana. Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota

Question 32

Alamo

Answer 32

Spanish mission where 187 men fighting for Texans were killed by Mexico

Question 33

San Jacinto

Answer 33

place where the Texans defeated the Mexicans armys

Question 34

Rio Grande

Answer 34

river that forms the border between Texans and Mexicans

Question 35

Oregon Territory

Answer 35

land that eventually became the states of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, as well as part of Montana and Wyoming

Question 36

1803

Answer 36

Louisiana Purchase

Question 37

1812-1815

Answer 37

war of 1812

Question 38

1819

Answer 38

Florida is purchased from spain

Question 39

1846-1848

Answer 39

Mexican War

Question 40

1848

Answer 40

gold is discovered in California

Question 41

1853

Answer 41

Gadsden Purchase