FRA 5th Grade SS Ch. 9 People/Places/Events
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FRA 5th Grade Social Studies Chapter 9 People
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Terms | Definitions |
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 Daniel Boone | one of the best-known pioneers to cross the Appalachians; he helped widen the trail through the Cumberland Gap |
| John Sevier | a former Continental Army general, 1st gov. of TN |
| Thomas Jefferson | 3rd president of the US; wanted to expand the borders of the US |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | the leader of France |
| The Louisian Purchase | a region of land that doubled the size of the nation when it was purchased from France in 1803 |
| Meriwether Lewis and William Clark | American explorers chosen by Pres. Thomas Jefferson to explore the La. Purchase |
| Sacagawea | a French fur trader's wife who were hired by Lewis and Clark to guide the expeditiont through the Shoshone lands of the La. Purchase |
| Pikes Peak | Captain Zebulon Pike led an expedition to the southwestern area of the La. Purchase (now Colorado) and saw a "blue mountain" |
| Dolley Madison | First Lady in 1814 when the British attacked D.C. and burned the White House and Capitol; she saved many important govt. papers |
| Francis Scott Key | wrote a poem called "The Star Spangled Banner" which was later set to music and becoame the national anthem |
| Monroe Doctrine | Pres. James Monroe announced this plan to keep European powers from colonizing the US |
| Sequoyah | Cheroke who created an alphabet fo his people's language |
| Trail of Tears | Cherokee Indians were forced to move west and walked about 800 miles to Indian Territory |
| Alamo | the San Antonio mission that was turned into a fort |
| Sam Houston | led an army to defend the Alamo from the Mexican govt. |
| Oregon Trail | pioneers travelled from Independence, MO west in groups of wagons |
| Mormon Trial | members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints were not welcome in many places in the US and they went west to form their own communities and find greater religious freedom |
| Mexican-American War | 1846 a dispute arose over the border between Texas and Mexico. |
| Gold Rush | 1849 people rushed to California to find gold; the great increase in people helped California become a state |
| Erie Canal | Irish immigrants and local workers built this to link the Great Lakes to the Atlantic; it cut time and shipping costs |
| Robert Fulton | invented the steam engine to power his boat |
| Peter Cooper | built the first American locomotive |
| Industrial Revolution | new inventions and forms of transportation changed manufacturing making it quicker and cheaper |
| Moses Brown | built the first American textile mill; it marked the beginning of large scale manufacturing in the US |
| Francis Cabot Lowell | built a mill ithat did all the jobs needed to make raw cotton into finished cloth |
| Eli Whitney | invented the cotton gin that could remove the seeds from cotton |
| Eli Whitney | invented a system of interchangeable parts for making guns which made mass production possible |
| Cyrus McCormick | invented a mechanical reaper for harvesting grain quicker than by hand |
| John Deere | invented a strong steel plow to cut through the heavy midwestern soil |
| Samuel F. B. Morse | invented the telegraph which would send messages from one machine to another along a wire |
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