Travel to the West
Travel in America in the 1700s was difficult for this reason
Bad roads
The name of the 17 year old commander at the Alamo was
William B. Travis
This Native American proclaimed that even though his people had helped the settlers, they took away their homes and way of life.
Speckled Snake
The United State and Great Britain agreed that the boundary for America in the north would be set at the 54 degrees and 40 ft line of _________
latitude
Americans believed that it was their God given right to possess the land of the entire continent. This was called-
Manifest Destiny
The Oregon Trail began here
Independence, Missouri
The conflict between Texas and Mexico happened at the
Battle of the Alamo
This young Native girl guided Lewis and Clark in an expedition
Sacagawea
A person who has come from France to permanently live in America has done this
Emigrated
This group of people traveled west to escape religious persecution
The Mormons
Three advantages of railroads over canals were
they didn't freeze
they could go over mountains
they were faster
The Mexican government asked the first Americans that moved to Texas to
become loyal citizens
This Native American man resented American settlers for taking Native lands.
Tecumseh
People who traveled on the Oregon Trail were called
Pioneers
This brought 80,000 people to the west
The California Gold Rush
Daniel Boone made travel over the Appalachian Mountains possible by clearing a pass called this
Cumberland Gap
President Polk hoped to add new areas to the United States, two of them were
New Mexico and California
This Native American from the Cherokee tribe, developed a written language.
Sequoyah
This is a sense or belief a person has that a certain action is right or wrong
conscience
Great Britain and the United States used this strategy to avoid war
Compromise
Steamboats were considered a good invention because they could carry these two things
goods and people
This is the reason why Texas was not admitted into the union at first
It allowed slavery
These five tribes of Native American's decided to accept the settler ways.
Choctaw, Creek, Cherokee, Chickawas, and Seminole
American's and Native American's made agreements called
Treaties
Many Americans made this treacherous journey for fertile land and
the fur of its animals