Odds and Ends
Famous People
New Lands
Going West
Vocabulary
100
The belief that Americans had a God-given destiny to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
Manifest Destiny
100
The U.S. president during the Mexican-American War.
James K. Polk.
100
This doubled the size of the United States, and gave Americans control of the Mississippi River.
The Louisiana Purchase.
100
A person who is one of the first to explore or settle an area.
Pioneer
100
An area of land that belongs to a country or a state.
Territory
200
The Treaty that ended the war with Mexico.
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
200
These two men explored the Mississippi River during Thomas Jefferson's presidency.
Lewis and Clark.
200
This area was acquired as part of a treaty with Great Britain.
The Oregon Territory
200
These people were discriminated against, even though they were important workers in California.
Chinese immigrants.
200
A piece of land that two or more groups or countries argue belongs to them.
Disputed area
300
This way to communicate was an important part of the connecting the country as it expanded.
The telegraph.
300
This writer wrote the "Tell-Tale Heart."
Edgar Allen Poe
300
This area was gained as a result of a war with Mexico.
The Mexican Cession
300
This was the route taken by Brigham Young and his followers from Illinois to what is now Utah.
The Mormon Trail.
300
This increase was a major reason for people to leave northern cities to go west.
Population growth
400
By opening ports on the West Coast, American companies were closer to markets on this continent:
Asia.
400
This writer refused to pay his poll tax to protest the Mexican War.
Henry David Thoreau.
400
The name of this territory, acquired from Spain:
Florida.
400
This began in 1848, with the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill.
The Gold Rush.
400
To gain land through purchase, trade, or treaty.
Acquire
500
New England businesses specialized in this:
Manufacturing
500
These painters made inspiring pictures about the American West.
The Hudson River School.
500
This part of what is now New Mexico and Arizona was the last part of the country added in the contiguous United States.
The Gadsden Purchase.
500
This invention was vital to helping settlers to quickly colonize the West.
Railroads.
500
To hand over land to another country or group, usually through a treaty.
Cede, or cession