Westward Expansion
Belief the United States was destined by God to expand to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Lands that native peoples were forcibly relocated to after signing treaties with the United States.
What are Reservations.
Battle in which Mexican forces defeated American forces in Texas on March 6, 1836 at an old mission.
What is the Battle of the Alamo?
Who is President James Polk?
The land in the northwest United States once joint occupied by both Britain and the United States.
What is the Oregon Country?
90% of native populations in the Oregon Country died due to normal contact with this.
What are Diseases?
This controversial issue postponed Texas' admission to the Union until 1845.
What is Slavery?
The mistreatment of these people at the California missions of the 18th and 19th centuries has created uneasy relations with the Catholic Church.
Who are the Native Americans?
Route taken by pioneers and settlers as they traveled westward to the Pacific Ocean.
These two animals were very important to the native peoples of the Oregon Country.
What are horses and salmon?
What is the Panic of 1837?
Spain ceded this land in 1821 and it became a U.S. state in 1845.
What is Florida?
Environmental method used by Native Americans to maintain the nutrition and health of a large grassland.
What is Controlled Burning?
This Mexican state went through the Bear Flag revolt and declared independence in 1846.
What is California?
Native Americans were relocated to this type of land that purposely was not suitable for this type of development.
What is Farming?
These adventurers made a living by trading furs with the native peoples of the Rocky Mountains.
Phrase used by progressive activists to label the United States due to its history of taking native lands unjustly.
What is "Stolen Country"
This treaty signed by the United States and Mexico gave half of Mexico back to the Mexican government and drew the national boundary at the Rio Grande River.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
These two large reservations were made in the Oregon Territory through treaties signed i n1855.
What are the Walla Walla and Warm Springs Reservations?