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Landon Roberts
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Louisiana Purchase | the large region of North America sold by Napoleon to the US in 1803 for 15 million dollars. |
| Sacajawea | A young Native American woman who guided Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on their expedition to explore territory gained through the Louisiana Purchase |
| Manifest Destiny | the belief that the US was a chosen land that had been allotted the entire North American continent by God |
| Treaty of Fort Laramie | an agreement between the US and the Lakota nation, Yanktonai Sioux, Santee Sioux, and Arapaho signed in 1868 at Fort Laramie in the Wyoming Territory, guaranteeing to the Lakota ownership of the Black Hills, and further land and Hunting rights. |
| Santa Fe Trail | Important caravan route of the West United States |
| Oregon Trail | overland emigrant route in the US from the Missouri River the the Columbia Riber country |
| Mormons | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints; a religion that originated in the United States in the nineteenth century, with teachings based on the Bible and the Book of Mormon. |
| Joseph Smith | Started the Mormon church and religion |
| Brigham Young | was an American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and a settler of the Western United States. |
| Texas Revolution | a revolutionary movement, 1832–36, in which U.S. settlers asserted their independence from Mexico and established the republic of Texas. |
| Republic of Texas | The Republic of Texas was an independent sovereign state in North America which existed from March 2, 1836, to February 19, 1846. |
| Annex | a subsidiary building or an addition to a building |