Chapter 8- From The Appalachians To The Rockies Flashcards

1
Q

The Warriors Path lead into Kentucky through what pass in the mountains

A

The Cumberland gap

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2
Q

Why were people wanting to go west at this time

A

They were looking for land

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3
Q

In what year did Kentucky become a state

A

1792

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4
Q

What was significant about Kentucky becoming a state

A

It is the first frontier state

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5
Q

After the war for independence all lands north of the Ohio River became known as what territory

A

The Northwest territory

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6
Q

What act created a process for territories to become states

A

The Northwest ordinance of 1787

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7
Q

What Revolutionary war hero defeated the Indians at the battle of fallen Timbers

A

Anthony Wayne

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8
Q

What was the first state of the northwest territory Admitted to the union

A

Ohio

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9
Q

In what year did Ohio become a state

A

1803

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10
Q

To what port on the golf did many farmers along the Ohio River send their products

A

New Orleans

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11
Q

Under whose presidency was the issue of American rights and settlement in the west the most important

A

Thomas Jefferson

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12
Q

Who did Jefferson send to Paris to buy New Orleans

A

Robert Livingston

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13
Q

The semi arid lands of what state are known as big sky country

A

Montana

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14
Q

Who did President Jefferson send south to explore the Louisiana purchase

A

Zebulon Pike

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15
Q

What group of pirates control north Africa and prayed on American merchant ships

A

Barbary pirates

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16
Q

What country did the president send troops to deal with the Pirates

A

Tripoli

17
Q

Who won the election of 1808

A

James Madison

18
Q

Who served as Thomas Jefferson’s first lady

A

Dolly Madison

19
Q

What speaker of the house from Kentucky was known as a leading Warhawk

A

Henry Clay

20
Q

What Shawnee chief was the brother of the prophet

A

Tecumseh

21
Q

What earthquake was one of the most violent earthquakes in American history

A

The new Madrid earthquake

22
Q

What governor of Indiana defeated the Indians at the battle of Tippecanoe

A

William Henry Harrison

23
Q

What American ship as is known as old Ironsides

A

USS constitution

24
Q

What captain defeated the British at the battle of Lake Erie

A

Oliver hazard Perry

25
Q

What governor won the battle thames River

A

William Henry Harrison

26
Q

What fort in Alabama was attacked by Indians who were stirred up by Tecumseh

A

Fort Mims

27
Q

what fort was bombarded on September 13, 1814

A

Fort McHenry

28
Q

Who was the victorious general at the battle of New Orleans

A

Andrew Jackson

29
Q

What year did the Democratic Republican Congress charter the second bank of the United States

A

1816

30
Q

It 1818 who invaded Florida in pursuit of a raiding party of Indians

A

Jackson

31
Q

In what year did the Spanish agree to seed Florida to the United States

A

1819

32
Q

The seeding of Florida was apart of what treaty

A

The Adams Onis Treaty

33
Q

When was the Missouri compromise signed?

A

1820

34
Q

What plan put forward by Secretary of State John Quincy Adams prohibited future colonization in the New World by European powers

A

Monroe doctrine