Manifest Destiny
What is Manifest Destiny?
Westward expansion; America's belief that they deserved to go West
In the 1830's, what was California's main industry?
Cattle ranching (including hides and tallow).
What professional sport has its roots in Mexico?
Rodeo.
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
The 1803 deal where the U.S. bought a huge area of land from France, doubling the size of the country.
What was one contribution of Chinese immigrants to the US?
They helped build the Transcontinental Railroad, especially through the Sierra Nevada.
The US acquired land in all of these ways except: through war, through treaties, through settlement, through inheritance.
Inheritance
What was one effect of the California gold rush?
Population boomed, towns grew quickly, and many settlers moved west to find gold.
What was the subject of Mexican pueblo law?
Water, land, and community ownership in towns.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This 1848 treaty ended the Mexican-American War and gave the United States land that is now California, Nevada, Utah, and parts of several other western states.
What is nickname for America that attracted many immigrants who hoped for opportunity and success?
the Land of Opportunity
What was community property?
Property jointly owned by a married couple, where both husband and wife had equal rights.
The people who rushed to California in search of gold were called this nickname (hint it is a football team)
The 49ers
What does the exchange of foods between the US and Mexico represent?
Cultural diffusion—sharing cultures and traditions.
What was the small land purchase from Mexico in 1853 gave the U.S. land in southern Arizona and New Mexico to complete a southern railroad route?
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
Which event led to the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1804?
The Louisiana Purchase.
What is annexation?
When a country or territory is added or taken into another country. (Example: Texas was annexed into the U.S.)
What was the major railroad that was completed in 1869 connected the East and West coasts, making travel faster and safer?
Transcontinental Railroad?
What was the Mexican legal doctrine of community property rights?
Married couples shared property equally.
What was the Oregon Treaty?
How did Lewis and Clark help the US?
They mapped the land, studied plants & animals, contacted Native tribes, and proved travel to the Pacific was possible.
How did Manifest Destiny change the United States?
It caused the United States to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific, encouraged settlers to move west, helped grow the economy, increased immigration, and led to conflict with Native Americans and Mexico. It led to westward expansion, increased settlement, new states, conflict with Native Americans, and war with Mexico.
Settlers moved west using this famous path beginning in Missouri and ending in Oregon.
What is the Oregon Trail?
How did Mexico shape American culture in the US?
Mexican influence is seen in food, architecture, language, cattle ranching, music, and place names (like San Diego, Los Angeles).
Describe how the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo affected both nations.
The U.S. gained large western territories.
Mexico lost about half its land.
Mexicans living in the area were supposed to receive rights and property protection.
Westward expansion forced many Native American tribes off their lands. The tragic journey of the Cherokee is called what?
The Trail of Tears