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Am Hist Unit 3 Leap
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The map that shows the political borders of a country | Political Map |
| The map that shows the geographic features of a country | Physical Map |
| Shows natural and man made features on a map | Topographic Map |
| The Art of Making Maps is called | Cartography |
| North, South, East, West are | Cardinal Directions |
| Northeast, Southeast,Northwest, Southwest are | Intermediate Directions |
| This tells what the symbols on a map mean | Map legend |
| A device on maps that allows you to measure distances between two or more points | Map Scale |
| Located on a map and tells directions | Compose Rose |
| Purchase of land by Thomas Jefferson that doubled the size of the united States | Louisiana Purchase |
| A secretly negotiated treaty between France and Spain in which Spain returned the colonial territory of Louisiana to France. | Treaty of San Illdefonso |
| Revolt against Napoleon's rule that causedNapoleon to give up his idea of an Empire in North America and to sell Louisiana territory to the U.S. | Hatian Revolution |
| A French military expedition sent by Napoleon Bonaparte, attempting to regain French control of the island of Saint-Domingue and curtail the measures of independence taken by the former slave Toussaint Louverture. It ended in a French defeat at the battle | Saint Domingue Expedition |
| In 1803 he negotiated for France the Louisiana Purchase treaty by which Louisiana was ceded to the United States, | Francois de Barbe-Marbois |
| French Foreign Minister that offered the Louisiana Territory to the United States for 15 million | Foreign Minister Talleyrannd |
| President of the United States that developed the Monroe Doctrine and as a representive of America helped negociate the agreement (along with Livingston) that enable America to buy the Louisiana territory. | James Monroe |
| The virus that is transmitted by the bite of female mosquitoes | Yellow Fever |
| Compromise made to protect the balance of free and slave states in the U.S. Congress. Missouri was admitted as a slve state and Maine was admitted as a free state. Slavery could not exist above Missouri's Southern border in future admitances. | Missouri Compromise |
| A military conflict fought between the forces of the United States of America and those of the British Empire. The Americans declared war in 1812 for several reasons, including trade restrictions because of Britain's ongoing war with France, impressment o | War of 1812 |
| Armed conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848 in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas, which Mexico considered part of its territory despite the 1836 Texas Revolution. | Mexican-American War |
| the idea that it was America's obvious fate to rule all the land from the East Coast to the West Coast in North America | Manifest Destiny |
| The ordinance was the creation of the Northwest Territory as the first organized territory of the United States out of the region south of the Great Lakes, north and west of the Ohio River, and east of the Mississippi River. | Northwest Ordianance of 1787 |
| a government that represents a territory inhabited by a people sharing a common culture and language | Nation-State |
| Father of the Constitution | James Madison |
| Ruler of France at the time of the Louisiana purchase. He wanted to create an empire in North America, but after the Hatian Revolt gave up and sold Louisiana to America | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| 800 mile forced March of the Chrokee Indians from their homeland to Indian Reservations in Oklahoma during which many Indians died of the hardship. | Trail of Tears |
| President of the United States during the purchase of the Territory of Louisiana | Thomas Jefferson |
| a war between Mexico and settlers in Mexican owned Texas. It started when Meico threathened to kick out all American settlers of Texas because they refused to follow the laws of Mexico. The Texans won. | Texas War for Independence |
| third Vice President of the United States (1801–1805), under President Thomas Jefferson In the election for the presidency he tied Jefferson on votes | Aaron Burr |
| Southern leader from South Carolinia. Leader of opposition to the Tariff of Abominations and a leading supporter of states rights | John C. Calhoun |
| a historical name in the United States for the region of the present day southwestern United States that Mexico ceded to the U.S. in 1848. | Mexican Cession |
| a policy of the United States that stated that efforts by European nations to colonize/ interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression The United States would not interfear with events in Europe | Monroe Doctrine |
| a region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was purchased by the United States in a treaty for the purpose of the US's construction of a transcontinental railroad along a deep southern route. | Gadsen Purchase |
| Pirates and privateers who operated from North Africa. This area was known in Europe as the Barbary Coast. | Barbary Pirates |
| the peace treaty that ended the War of 1812 between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. | Treaty of Ghent |
| One of two Represenatives sent by President Jefferson to Negociate the purchase of New Orleans from the French. They ended up agreeing to purchase the entire Louisiana Territory. | Robert Livingston |
| Leaders of the exploration team assigned by Jefferson to explore the Louisiana Teritory | Lewis and Clark |
| A financial crisis or market correction in the United States built on a speculative fever.[ | Panic of 1837 |
| Area of land located in the Northwest Corner of the continental U.S. Oregon is annxed into the U.S. as a U.S. Territory in 1848 by President Polk | Oregon Territory |
| Began by Andrew Jackson, it is practice of giving government jobs to supporters. | Spoils System |
| Unoffical advisors of Andrew Jackson | Kitchen Cabinet |
| Known as the "Old World" | Europe |
| Known as the "New World" | North and South American Continents |
| A 2,000-mile (3,200 km) historic east-west wagon route that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon and locations in between. | Oregon Trail |
| A pass through the Cumberland Mountains region of the Appalachian Mountains, at the juncture of the U.S. states of Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia. through the lower central Appalachians, an important part of the Wilderness Road | Cumberland Gap |
| The principal route used by settlers for more than fifty years to reach Kentucky from the East. In 1775, | Wilderness Trail |
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