Key Terms Louisiana Purchase Fort Snelling Points of View Treaty Outcomes
100
Treaty
What is an agreement between two or more nations?
100
France
Who did the United States purchase the Louisiana Territory from?
100
1805
In what year was the land for Fort Snelling purchased?
100
The Dakota or Indians
Which group saw Minnesota as home and a place of their sacred traditions?
100
Traverse des Sioux
Which treaty saw the Dakota give up most of their south of the Mississippi River and had to pay back the fur traders with treaty money?
200
Westward Expansion
What is the 19th Century movement of settlers and immigrants from the eastern United States to the Midwest and West?
200
Thomas Jefferson
Who was the US president responsible for buy Louisiana?
200
Zebulon Pike
Who was the Army officer who purchased the land for Fort Snelling?
200
Fur Traders
Which group wanted to start lumbering businesses in Minnesota?
200
Mendota
Which treaty saw the Dakota lose most of their land in Minnesota and Iowa.
300
Territory
A part of the US that is not within a state but is organized with its own governing leaders.
300
1803
When did the US purchase Louisiana?
300
1819
In what year was the fort built?
300
Government Officials
Which group wanted to open the land up for settlement and encouraged westward expansion?
300
Missionaries
Who, besides the fur traders, received money from the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux?
400
Reservation
What is land that is set aside for the Indians to live on?
400
New Orleans
What is the city at the mouth of the Mississippi River the United States wanted to control?
400
The British
The fort was built to protect the American fur trade from which enemy country?
400
Missionaries
Which group wanted to slowly change the Dakota into farmers and Christians?
400
It became temporary
What was changed about the Dakota's promised permanent reservation along the Minnesota River?
500
Delegation
What is a group of people chosen to represent others?
500
Twice as big
How much larger did the US become after the purchase?
500
The Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers
Fort Snelling is built at the confluence of which two rivers?
500
Henry Sibley
Who wrote: "No treaty can be made without our claims being first secured."?
500
Settlers
Who began pouring onto Dakota land after the treaties were signed?






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