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&Social Studies West
Western Expansion
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Daniel Boone | guide who was first to lead settlers beyond the Appalachians; cut road west |
| Louisiana Purchase | the$15 million purchase of Louisiana from France for, which roughly doubled the size of America |
| Meriwether Lewis | |
| William Clark | co-leader of the western expedition |
| Lewis and Clark expedition | a long journey to explore the Louisiana Purchase |
| Sacagawea | a Shoshone who helped the Lewis and Clark expedition by naming and gathering edible vegetables and fruit for the group |
| Zebulon Pike | an explorer of the West who reached the summit of the Mountain known as Pike's Peak |
| John C. Freemont | led an expedlition to the Rocky Mountains in 1842 and wrote a report of his journey that became a guide for fellow travels to the West |
| mountain man | fur traders and trappers who traveled to the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Northwest in the early 1800 |
| John Jacob Astor | owner of the American Fur Company who founded the first important settlement in Oregon Country in 1811 |
| Oregon Trail | the main route from the Mississippi River to the West Coast in the early 1800s |
| Santa Fe Trail | the route from Indepence, Missouri, to Santa Fe, New Mexica |
| Mormons | members of a religious group, formally known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who moved west in the 1800s and the 1840s |
| Brigham Young | Mormon leader who chose Utah as the group's new home |
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