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1. What newly acquired piece of land were Lewis and Clark sent to explore?
2. Daniel Boone was an early pioneer who settled in Kentucky in what year?
3. The longest canal in the Americas was built in the United States in the early 1800s and was known as what?
4. Robert Fulton piloted up the Hudson River in his side-wheeled steamboat named the _____________ ?
5. Daniel Boone found the Cumberland Gap that ran through the Appalachian Mountains to what state?
6. This land is north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River. It given to the USA after the Revolutionary War/ What was this region called?
7. The early fur-trappers who roamed the west in search of beaver pelts were known by what term?
8. John Chapman was known by what name?
9. In 1805, this army officer was sent by the U.S. Government to find the source of the Mississippi River.
10. What transported goods across the Allegheny mountains to the frontier?
11. In 1794, the United States and Great Britain signed Jay's Treaty which tried to settle problems in what area of the U.S.?
12. The Battle of Fallen Timbers (August 1794) in northwestern Ohio was fought between the Americans and ____________.
13. In 1790, the United States shared territory east of the Mississippi with this {country;}
14. In 1793, Eli Whitney devised a machine that revolutionized Southern agriculture and allowed Southern farmers to expand cotton production.
15. 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:
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