The People
Who were the “Forty-Niners?”
Individuals seeking gold in California
This compromise was the first in a series that set the stage for a Civil War
The Missouri Compromise
This group of people went west to escape religious persecution
The Mormons
What was one major reason that the Republic of Texas declared independence in 1836?
Disagreement over slavery
The United States began its westward expansion initially by doing what?
Buying the Louisiana Purchase from France
This group of people got caught in a Mountain Pass on the way west and had to resort to cannibalism to survive.
The Donner Party
Why was California becoming a state in 1850 a major problem for the US?
By entering as a Free state, it upset the balance between slave/free states in Congress
What was the name of the gentleman that took 300 Americans west and settled a colony in Texas?
Stephen F. Austin
William Travis wrote a letter asking for aid. Who did he write it to?
To Texans and All Americans
After President Thomas Jefferson bought land from France he sent these two men to explore the territory west of the Mississippi.
Lewis and Clark
Native Americans lost what three things due to Manifest Destiny?
Their Families, Their Land, Their wealth(buffalo)
The Missouri Compromise made what rule for states allowing or disallowing slaves?
Missouri was a made a slave state, everything north was automatically free, everything south was slave territory.
According to US thoughts of the time, why did Americans feel it was their destiny to expand throughout the rest of the continent?
They saw Native Americans as inferior humans and felt God willed it to be happen
What was the result of the Mexican-American War?
Texas became a part of the United States
What was the major driving force behind people moving westward in 1848-50?
The discovery of gold in California
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were part of what philosophical movement?
Transcendentalism
Why did the Kansas-Nebraska Act not work?
The fight for the North was a moral one, no compromise would work.
The Trail of Tears
What was one major motivation for Santa Anna to come to Texas and attack the Alamo?
To collect taxes from Texans who refused to pay.
What was the name of the Indian woman who aided Lewis and Clark on their journey?
Sacagawea
Transcendentalism shifted the power of salvation from ________ to _________ interacting with ________.
Priest/reverends to individual people interacting with nature
1. California is a free state
2. Texas is paid $10 Million
3. New states can vote on slavery issue
4. Slave Trade is outlawed in D.C.
5. Strengthening of the Fugitive Slave Law
Before westward expansion, this was a central component of life for the Native Americans of the Great Plains
The American Buffalo
What resulted in Mexico recognizing that Texas was part of the US, accepting the Rio Grande River as the border of Texas, and giving the US California and Arizona.
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
This invention greatly increased the South's ability to use slave labor to work a farming economy.
The Cotton Gin