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westward expansion
vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| who was involved in the war of 1812 | Britain and America |
| what were the causes | impressment, Britain suppling the native with weapons, war hawks rushed congress to declare war against the British |
| what major event took place in Washington D.C | burning of the white house and capital |
| which country did us acquire Texas | Mexico |
| what was the alamo | a church used as a fort at the battle of the alamo |
| what was the purpose of the battle of the alamo | Texans wanted independence |
| what was the Oregon trail | well known trail that pioneers used to travel west to the Pacific Ocean |
| what led many settlers to move west | they wanted more land and had heard of gold |
| what was the gold rush | the mass movement of people looking for gold in California, towns called mining towns or boomtowns were set up |
| what types of towns popped up in California due to people searching for gold | hard with limited supplies, food, water, and shelter |
| what was the trail of tears | the relocation of native Americans to reservations in Oklahoma thousands died on the trip. 1500 miles |
| who was impacted the worst by Westward expansion | native Americans |
| why did so many native Americans die on the journey to their new reservation | disease, starvation, bad weather, and extreme conditions |
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