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