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| Pioneer | person who leads the way, usually to make a new home and become a settler there |
| Daniel Boone | Virginia pioneer and trailblazer, nicknamed "the Pathfinder". He guided settlers through the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky |
| John Findley | Frontier trader who blazed trails with Daniel Boone |
| Cumberland Gap | a natural pass through the Cumberland Mountains of Kentucky |
| Wilderness Road | an early road across the Appalachians |
| Boonesborough | Site of the fort founded in 1775 by Daniel Boone |
| District of Columbia | area encompassing the capital of the U.S. |
| Benjamin Banneker | Scientist, writer, and planner of the District of Columbia |
| Pierre L'Enfant | French engineer and architect who designed the plan of the District of Columbia |
| Thomas Jefferson | 3rd President of the U.S. from 1801-1809. He was the author of the Declaration of Independence who later bought the Louisiana Purchase from France. |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | Emperor of France who sold the Louisiana Territory to the United States |
| Louisiana Purchase | the territory purchased by the U.S. from France, reaching from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada |
| Meriwether Lewis and William Clark | Explorers of the Louisiana Purchase |
| York | slave who helped explore the Louisiana Purchase |
| Sacajawea | Shoshone guide and translator for the Lewis and Clark expedition |
| Snake River | a river in the northwestern U.S. that flows into the Columbian River |
| James Madison | 4th President of the U.S. Known as the "Father of the Constitution" |
| War Hawks | members of Congress from the south and west in the early 1800's who wanted the U.S. to go to war with Great Britain |
| Oliver Hazard Perry | U.S. naval commander who defeated the British in the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812 |
| Tecumseh | Shawnee chief who attempted to unite Native American peoples against settlers in the Northwest Territory |
| Andrew Jackson | 7th President of the U.S. Defeated the British at the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812. Known as "Old Hickory". |
| Fort McHenry | fort protecting the harbor of Baltimore, it was attacked by the British during the War of 1812. |
| Francis Scott Key | Writer of our national anthem. "The Star Spangled Banner". He wrote this song while watchign the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British during the War of 1812. |
| national anthem | a country's official song |
| Battle of New Orleans | A U.S. victory over British forces in the last battle of the War of 1812 |
| Era of Good Feelings | the name given to the period of peace that followed the War of 1812 |
| Sequoyah | Cherokee leader who invented an alphabet for his people's language |
| Indian Removal Act | A law passed by Congress in 1830 forcing Native Americans of the Southeast to move to what is now Oklahoma |
| Indian Territory | Land set aside by the Indian Removal Act of 1830 as a place for the Native Americans forced from their homeland |
| Trail of Tears | name given to the 800 mile forced march of 15,000 Cherokee in 1838 from their homes in Georgia to the Indian Territory |
| Osceola | Seminole chief who resisted his people's removal from Florida |
