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| helped settle the West by making Wilderness Road, a path through the Appalachian Mountains into Kentucky |
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| Meriwether Lewis and William Clark |
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| explored the Louisiana Purchase and mapped passages through the Rocky Mountains |
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| served as a guide and interpreter for the Lewis and Clark expedition |
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| President Thomas Jefferson |
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| made a deal with France called the Louisiana Purchase that doubled the size of the United States |
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| the name of the long journey that the Cherokee Indians took to Oklahoma after being forced off their land |
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| the belief that the United States was meant to stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific |
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| a small mission outside San Antonio that was the spot chosen by the Americans taking a stand against Santa Anna and his Mexican soldiers in the battle for Texas |
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| The northern trail to reach the West |
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| The act that opened up the West for settlement |
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| kept the balance between slave states and free states when Missouri wanted to join the Union as a slave state |
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| More than 80,000 people headed to California in 1849 looking for ... |
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| allowed California to come in as a free state and New Mexico and Utah could decide which they preferred |
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