History of the Americas Questions
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Who did Thomas Jefferson send to ask the French leader, Napoleon to sell part of Louisiana, including New Orleans to the United States?
What did Lewis and Clark name their expedition?
Today, an acre of land averages about _____ per acre.
True or False: With this land purchase, the U.S. became one of the largest countries in the world.
True or False: The Louisiana Purchase was one of the largest land sales in the history of the United States.
Who was the leader of France at the time of the purchase?
Napoleon was fighting two wars. Where were these two wars?
When did President Thomas Jefferson take the oath of office?
How many new states did we acquire with the Louisiana Purchase?
Who agreed to travel with Lewis and Clark and serve as a translator?
Approximately how many square miles of land was included in the Louisiana Purchase?
Who closed the port of New Orleans to western farmers, hoping to stop the United States from moving farther west past the Mississippi River?
During the French and Indian War, France had given much of its land in North America to Spain to prevent the _____ from getting control of it.
How do historians state James K. Polk might have influenced the start of the war?
Who did we split the Oregon territory with?
What was Polk's presidential campaign that made him popular?
What were the two different sides of the Texas revolution?
What did the United States gain in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
When the British managed to cut off french shipping to the americas what happened
How did the American Indians benefit from their middle position between the competing empires