Manifest Destiny
This belief said the United States was meant to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific
Manifest Destiny
Why did people go west?
Cheap Land
The U.S. annexed this republic in 1845, causing tension with Mexico.
Texas
California’s population grew quickly because of this event.
Gold Rush
This escaped slave helped lead hundreds to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman
These mountains were a major obstacle settlers had to cross going west
Rocky Mountains
Texas Belonged to who?
Mexico
Members of this religious group moved west to Utah in search of religious freedom.
Mormons
The first battle of the Mexican-American War happened here in Texas.
Brownsville or Battle of Palo Alto
Many immigrants traveled from this Asian country to search for gold.
China
What is an Abolitionists
Wanted to End Slavery
People Moved west to get What for Cheap
Land
James K. Polk wanted promised to get which two States?
Texas and Oregon
This famous 1,500-mile trail helped thousands of Americans travel west from Missouri to Oregon.
Oregon Trail
What state did we BUY from Mexico after the War?
California
Gold was discovered in California in this year. (Think about a football team)
1849
This book exposed the cruelty of slavery and helped grow the abolition movement.
Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Who did the United states split Oregon with?
Great Britain or England
This U.S. president strongly supported Manifest Destiny and expansion west.
James K. Polk
Settlers moving west often had to cross this major mountain range in the United States.
Rock Mountains
This 1848 treaty ended the Mexican-American War?
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
California wanted to be a free state, who didn't want California to join the Union (United States)
The South
This abolitionist spoke to god and was told to kill any white slave owners.
John Brown
Immigrants who came to the United states and were persecuted for being Catholics
Irish
Before independence, this mountain range was the western boundary of the 13 colonies.
Appalachian Mountains
Which Country did Polk get Oregon from?
England
This large area of land Mexico gave up to the U.S. after the war is called this.
Mexican Cession
This purchase in 1853 helped build a southern railroad route
Gadsden Purchase?
This Supreme Court case ruled that enslaved people were property and not citizens
Dred Scott v. Sandford
The Compromise of 1850 would allow California to be a state but congress had to pass what law?
Fugitive Slave Act