By: riyavadlamudi7 • 3 months ago
By: laurenkennedy • 2 year ago
Some examples from this set of practice questions
1.
Louisiana Purchase
Answer: -Purchased from France -1803 -$15 Million -Access to Mississippi River -New Orleanes port -Became 15 States (eventually) -Lewis and Clark expedition
2.
Mountain Men:
Answer: -Peaked in the 1840’s -Opened up various emigrant trails helping settlers move to the west -fur trade
3.
Why did people move west?
Answer: -Gold Rush/Mining -Mormons (proved it was possible to live on desert land) -Mountain men - helped people emigrate -Transport - better transport made it easier e.g. rail roads -Timber & Stone Act -Morris Act
4.
Transport
Answer: -Railroads started being built in 1862 -Central Pacific & Union Pacific rail roads -Rail roads made it easier to cross the country and made trade easier -Expansion of agriculture and meat trades -However, ended Mormons period of isolation -Cowboys brought cattle to the rail roads -Pacific rail Road act -Timber and Stone Act -Mountain men/wagon trails
5.
Florida
Answer: -Owned by Spain -Causing problems for the u.s. (fugitive slaves and Seminole Indians) -Andrew Jackson Invades Florida -1819 - Adam’s-Onis treaty - $5 Million
6.
Texas and Oregon Mexican Cession Gadsden Purchase
Answer: -Texas joins in 1845 (was an independent country) -Oregon joins in 1846 (split with Britain) -Mexican Cession -U.S. Mexican War1846-1848 -War deliberately provoked to gain land -$15 Million -Gadsten purchase - brought to build a rail road and sort out border issues -brought from Mexico
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