Manifest Destiny 101
The belief that Americans had a God-given right to control land from the ____ Ocean to the ____ Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny (Atlantic to Pacific)?
“Annexation” means when one country ______ new land and makes it part of its ______.
What is “adds/takes” land and makes it part of its country/nation?
The U.S. annexation of Texas in ____ angered Mexico.
What is 1845?
Congress declared ______ on Mexico in May 1846.
What is war?
“Antebellum” refers to the period after ______ and before ______.
What is after annexation/statehood and before the Civil War?
This belief pushed Americans toward ______ expansion.
What is westward expansion?
The phrase “Manifest Destiny” was created in 1845 by this newspaper editor.
Who is John L. O’Sullivan?
The Treaty of Velasco said the ______ ______ was the border.
What is the Rio Grande?
The war ended with this treaty.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Many Texans practiced ______ farming—growing enough food for your family.
What is subsistence farming?
Manifest Destiny sometimes caused these outcomes (name one): _______, _______, and _______.
What are conflict/war/tension (any listed in your notes)?
O’Sullivan supported ______ expansion and the ______ of Texas.
What is westward expansion and annexation of Texas?
Mexico believed the ______ River was the border instead.
What is the Nueces River?
Mexico recognized Texas and agreed the ______ ______ was the border.
What is the Rio Grande?
People even posted signs that said “GTT” meaning “________________”
What is Gone To Texas?
Two groups of people most directly affected by U.S. expansion west (name one).
Who are Native Americans / Mexicans / Enslaved people (any reasonable affected group)?
Many Americans wanted Texas annexed so the U.S. could stretch from ______ to ______.
What is “coast to coast” (Atlantic to Pacific)?
This border disagreement increased ______ between the two nations.
What is tension?
The U.S. gained Alta California and Nuevo Mexico in the ______ ______.
What is the Mexican Cession?
“King Cotton” refers to cotton as a major ______ crop.
What is a cash crop?
The big idea: Americans thought expansion would build a powerful empire stretching across the continent.
What is a powerful U.S. “empire” stretching across North America?
Native peoples viewed land as their ______, not something to be ______ or ______ by Americans.
What is “homeland,” not something to be bought/sold/taken?
Polk favored annexing Texas and also wanted to acquire ______ from Mexico.
What is territory/land (western land such as California area)?
The Compromise of 1850 included this law requiring help capturing and returning escaped
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
The “Cart War” shows conflict and prejudice when Tejanos competed with ______ cartmen for hauling freight.
Who are Anglo (Anglo-American) cartmen?