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What newly acquired piece of land were Lewis and Clark sent to explore?

Louisiana Purchase. The Louisiana Purchase was purchased from France in 1803 and ran from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains.

Daniel Boone was an early pioneer who settled in Kentucky in what year?

1775. Daniel Boone walked across the Appalachian Mountains into Kentucky in the same year as Paul Revere's famous ride.

The longest canal in the Americas was built in the United States in the early 1800s and was known as what?

Erie Canal. The Erie Canal was 584 km long and ran from Buffalo on Lake Erie to Troy, New York. It was also known as the Big Ditch.

Robert Fulton piloted up the Hudson River in his side-wheeled steamboat named the _____________ ?

Clermont. Fulton chugged up the Hudson in the Clermont, also known as Fulton's Folly, in 1807 opening up the rivers of the U.S. to steamboat travel.

Daniel Boone found the Cumberland Gap that ran through the Appalachian Mountains to what state?

Kentucky.

What has the area of land called that is north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River which was given to the United States after the Revolutionary War?

Northwest Territory. The Northwest Ordinance, also known as the Ordinance of 1787, set up the machinery for organizing the Northwest Territory. Final control of the area, however, did not end until 1814, at the end of the War of 1812.

The early fur-trappers who roamed the west in search of beaver pelts where known by what term?

Mountain Men. Mountain men roamed the wilderness, living off of the land. They trapped as far west as the Missouri River.

John Chapman was known by what name?

Johnny Appleseed. Johnny Appleseed planted apple orchards in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois and Indiana.

In 1805, this army officer was sent by the U.S. Government to find the source of the Mississippi River.

Zebulon Pike. Pike is most known for 'discovering' Pike's Peak in Colorado.

What transported goods across the Allegheny mountains to the frontier?

Conestoga Wagon. The Conestoga wagon was a heavy freight-carrying vehicle which was used to carry manufactured goods west and return with produce from the west.

In 1794, the United States and Great Britain signed Jay's Treaty which tried to settle problems in what area of the U.S.?

Northwest Territory. Jay's Treaty tried to remove the British Army and Navy from lands, rivers, and lakes in the Northwest Territory.

The Battle of Fallen Timbers in northwestern Ohio was fought between the Americans and ____________.

American-Indians. The Treaty of Paris which ended the American Revolution made no mention of the country's indigenous peoples. The Constitution, however, gave the U.S. power over the American-Indian Tribes.

In 1790, the United States shared territory east of the Mississippi with this {country;}

Spain. The British controlled what is now Florida during the American Revolution but returned it to Spain in 1793 as a part of the Treaty of Paris which ended the American Revolution.

In 1793, Eli Whitney devised a machine that revolutionized Southern agriculture and allowed Southern farmers to expand cotton production.

Cotton Gin. The cotton gin was very important in opening up the Southern frontier, eventually making the U.S.the largest cotton-producing nation in the world.

The expansion of white settlers into the Northwest Territory was met with resistance by the American-Indians. The most significant conflict to white settlement came from this Shawnee warrior:

Tecumseh. Tecumseh took part in the Battle of Fallen Timbers and was defeated by General Anthony Wayne. Tecumseh was opposed to any surrender of Native American lands to whites.