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Final Jeopardy
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100 Question from New Territories
What physical feature caused settlers problems as
they traveled to Oregon?
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100 Answer from New Territories
Rocky Mountains
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200 Question from New Territories
What area was bought from Mexico to finish what
we today have as the continental United States?
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200 Answer from New Territories
Gadsden Purchase
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300 Question from New Territories
How did the U.S. get Florida?
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300 Answer from New Territories
Spain gave Florida to the United States through a
treaty.
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400 Question from New Territories
How did the U.S. get Texas?
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400 Answer from New Territories
Texas was added (annexed) after it became an
independent republic.
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500 Question from New Territories
How did the U.S. get California?
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500 Answer from New Territories
War with Mexico resulted in California and the
southwest territory (Mexican Cession) becoming
part of the United States
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100 Question from Influences of Westward Movement
What would be an attraction for Eastern farmers
in the West?
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100 Answer from Influences of Westward Movement
Availability of cheap, fertile land.
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200 Question from Influences of Westward Movement
What caused people in the East to move west?
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200 Answer from Influences of Westward Movement
Population growth in the east
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300 Question from Influences of Westward Movement
What was an economic opportunity during the
Westward Movement?
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300 Answer from Influences of Westward Movement
Gold (California Gold Rush) Logging Farming Freedo
m (for runaway Slaves)
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400 Question from Influences of Westward Movement
Name two overland trails used during westward
expansion.
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400 Answer from Influences of Westward Movement
Oregon Trail, Mormon Trail and Santa Fe Trail
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500 Question from Influences of Westward Movement
What was Manifest Destiny?
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500 Answer from Influences of Westward Movement
A belief that expansion was for the good of the
country and was our right
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100 Question from the California Gold Rush
What was the gold rush?
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100 Answer from the California Gold Rush
Migration of thousands of settlers to California
in search of gold, to make their fortunes
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200 Question from the California Gold Rush
Why/when did the gold rush come to an end?
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200 Answer from the California Gold Rush
When the easy to find gold was gone
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300 Question from the California Gold Rush
What was the name of the people who moved to
California after they heard about the gold?
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300 Answer from the California Gold Rush
Forty-Niner
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400 Question from the California Gold Rush
Name an effect of the gold rush.
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400 Answer from the California Gold Rush
Population increased, California became a state,
Native Americans and Californios were pushed out
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500 Question from the California Gold Rush
Name three problems Californians had during the
gold rush.
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500 Answer from the California Gold Rush
Being cheated, crime, not making enough money,
fighting/violence, pollution of rivers and Native
American hunting grounds
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100 Question from the War with Mexico
Why did the U.S. enter war with Mexico?
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100 Answer from the War with Mexico
Annexation of Texas, desire for California and
other Mexican territories, and boundary dispute
in Texas
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200 Question from the War with Mexico
Who was president during the war?
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200 Answer from the War with Mexico
James K. Polk
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300 Question from the War with Mexico
What river did the United States believe was the
boundary between Mexico and itself? Bonus What
river did Mexico believe was the boundary?
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300 Answer from the War with Mexico
Rio Grande River Bonus Nueces River
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400 Question from the War with Mexico
What was the name of the territory that the
United States won from Mexico?
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400 Answer from the War with Mexico
Mexican Cession
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500 Question from the War with Mexico
What is the name of the treaty that ended war
with Mexico?
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500 Answer from the War with Mexico
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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100 Question from Only for the Brave
What was the name of this painting?
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100 Answer from Only for the Brave
American Progress
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200 Question from Only for the Brave
Describe 2 challenges along the Oregon Trail.
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200 Answer from Only for the Brave
Long journey (6 months), unknown territory,
wagons overloaded with supplies, had to travel by
foot, rough weather, etc.
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300 Question from Only for the Brave
What was the purpose of the Northwest Ordinance
of 1787?
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300 Answer from Only for the Brave
This accomplishment of the Articles of
Confederation is the way that future territories
would be established and how states were created.
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400 Question from Only for the Brave
What is the name of the religious denomination
that moved to Salt Lake City, UT to escape
religious persecution?
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400 Answer from Only for the Brave
Mormons
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500 Question from Only for the Brave
Why did Americans believe in Manifest Destiny?
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500 Answer from Only for the Brave
Belief in American cultural and racial
superiority, belief that God had blessed the
growth of the nation
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Final Jeopardy
When did the idea of Manifest Destiny take place?
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Final Jeopardy Answer
In the 1800s, especially during the 1840s