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Land I love Chapter 8 pp 144-149
Land I love Chapter 8
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History
8th Grade
01/25/2011

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Which was the first frontier state to be admitted to the Union?
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Kentucky
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Who blazed a trail through the Cumberland Gap so that settlers could go from North Carolina to Kentucky?
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Daniel Boone
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What general defeated the Indians at the Battle of Fallen Timbers?
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Anthony Wayne
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Which personal secretary did President Jefferson ask to explore the newly acquired land of Louisiana?
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Meriwether Lewis
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How much money did the United states pay for the Louisiana Territory?
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$15 million
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What ordinance called for Congress to administer the Northwest Territory by appointing a governor and three judges to govern for the settlers?
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Northwest Ordinance of 1787
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What port city on the Mississippi River controlled all shipping in the West?
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New Orleans
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What did the Louisiana Purchase cost the United States per acre?
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less than 4 cents an acre
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What treaty established a boundary line between Indian lands and the areas open to new settlement?
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Treaty of Greenville
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Name the large rafts with flat bottoms that pioneers used to follow the rivers west.
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flatboats
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