Manifest Destiny
What the new, undiscovered land of America was called
What is the frontier?
The American Colonel led the American 7th Calvary to attack the Lakota, Arpaho, and Cheyenne tribes in Montana, but ultimately lost the battle and died.
Who is Colonel George Custer?
The president who oversaw the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This doubled the size of the United States and led to the Lewis and Clark expedition
What is The Louisiana Purchase?
Name 2 of the main cities settlers settled in the West during Manifest Destiny
What is Denver and San Francisco?
This 1823 document warned European settlers against further colonization in America
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This American Colonel led American soldiers to the Dakota Territory in 1891 and succeeded in killing 300 of the Sioux and Lakota tribe members
Who is Col. Forsyth?
The president who signed the Indian Removal Act of 1830 to clear the way for European and American settlers
Who is Andrew Jackson?
The United States gained the Southwest after a war with Mexico
What is the Mexican Cession?
The trail that settlers took to reach the West and has a famous video game named after it.
What is the Oregon Trail?
This 1857 Supreme Court decision ruled that Black Americans couldn't be American citizens and that Congress couldn't ban slavery in territories
What is the Dred Scott decision?
One of the richest, most influential Indians who led the Texas Red River War in 1874-75
Who is Quanah Parker?
This woman served as a guide and interpreter for the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Who is Sacagawea?
This brought a former Mexican territory, which was previously independent, into the United States
What is the annexation of Texas?
The 3 methods of mining used in the California Gold Rush
What is hydraulicking, gold panning, and placer mining?
Manifest Destiny was an American ideology that led to the United States becoming more independent, motivated to expand and become more powerful, and have a nationality
What is Turner's Thesis?
The famous Indian dance that Chief Wavoka and the Cheyenne tribe performed to reset the Earth back to its original owners
What is the Ghost Dance?
The president who oversaw the annexation of Texas and the Mexican-American War
Who is James K. Polk?
This British Treaty, signed in 1846, settled the boundaries of the Pacific Northwest along the 49th parallel
What is the Oregon Treaty?
Immigrants from this Asian country came to mine gold and later work for the CRPP on the TCRR
What is China/Chinese immigrants?
This date marked the official, physical meeting of the CPRR and UPRR to officially form the TCRR
When is May 10, 1869?
The famous quote that Chief Joseph said after the Nez Perce War
What is "I will fight no more forever?"
This Indian tribe challenged Indian Removal in the Supreme Court, winning Worcester v. Georgia, but was ignored
Who is the Cherokee tribe?
This 1853 purchase added some of present-day New Mexico and Arizona to the United States' territory
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
An immigrant who famously created work jeans, founded a clothing empire, and who's business still thrives today
Who is Levi Strauss?