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  1. 1. She collected valuable items from the White House during the war and she was also James Maddison’s wife.
  2. 4. These words referred to the belief shared by many Americans that the United States should one day stretch from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
  3. 5. It quickly became the main form of river travel after the canal building.
  4. 7. He knew nothing about government but he learned by being part of it.
  5. 8. It was when a group of Indians,called the Cherokees,had to leave their land and when they did more than 4,000 Cherokees had died.
  6. 10. It happened when American settlers were pushing the frontier farther west and ran into many angry Native Americans who were helped by the British.
  7. 11. It's a sudden rush of people to an area where gold has been found.
  8. 12. James Monroe announced a government plan of action so that he could stop the growth of the European colonies.
  9. 15. It was built because road travel cost so much and took so much time.
  10. 17. He developed the first cast-steel plow in the United States.
  11. 19. He was someone who carefully studied the machines.Also Slater and Moses Brown started the first American spinning mill.
  12. 20. They traveled up the Missouri River to get many facts about the Louisiana Purchase.
  13. 21. Key He was the person who wrote a poem named The Star-Spangled that later became the national anthem of the United States of America.
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  1. 2. The United States bought a huge territory from Bonaparte for $15million.
  2. 3. They have better pulling power then a horse.
  3. 6. The route was from St.Louis they traveled up the Missouri River then to the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains.
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  5. 13. He developed a new system of interchangeable parts to make guns.
  6. 14. This was when Texans took shelter behind the walls of a Spanish mission.
  7. 16. He was elected the seventh president in 1828.
  8. 17. He was the fourth president of the United States,who asked Congress to declare war on Britain.
  9. 18. His expedition wandered out of the Louisiana Purchase,went into Spanish territory,and got put in jail for trespassing.