Westward Expansion
The phrase coined by the journalist John O'Sullivan in 1845,used to describe a belief held by many surrounding land ownership rights and the expansionist goals of the United States of America.
What is Manifest destiny
Mexico opened land for American colonization in this future state
What was Texas?
A rebellion of farmers over a whiskey tax.
What was the Whiskey Rebellion?
The route over which settlers traveled to Oregon in the 1840s and 1850s; trails branched off from it toward Utah and California.
What was Oregon Trail?
What question led to 40 years of avoiding confrontation?
Florida was sold by this country to the US
What is Spain?
The Gold Rush in California saw a massive influx of what group of immigrants specifically?
What are Chinese immigrants?
This was meant to protect farmers' access to the Mississippi River and Port of New Orleans
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
Forced march of Native Americans from the southeastern US to the West
What is the Trail of Tears?
What antebellum compromise lasted a mere four short years before being overhauled?
What is the Compromise of 1850?
The Louisiana Purchase resulted in the United States gaining 828,000 sq. mi, the largest land acquisition in our country's history. What was the result of this agreement? Make sure your answer includes these details: description of the land, the seller, agreed price and year of purchase.
What is land west of the Mississippi River purchased from France for $15 million dollars in the year 1803?
They also had to cook, clean, and care for children on the journey west.
Who were the pioneer women?
What event took place between October 16-18, 1859, what did it initiate?
What was John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry and the initiated slave revolt in Southern states
acquiring territory in Arizona and New Mexico to build a southern railroad route across the country.
What was 1853 Gadsden Purchase?
What was the one major temporary affect from the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
What is the 36 30 oN that temporarily solved the issue of slavery for new states in the US?
This treaty ended the Mexican American War in 1848 and included land agreements between Mexico and the US.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Worked on cattle ranches in one of few jobs open to African Americans
Who were the African American cowboys?
This allowed the government to make treaties with Native Americans to trade land in the East for land in the West, it was not controversial at the time.
What was the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
Architecture, food, entertainment, mining, sheep farming, etc.
What were Mexican contributions in the Southwest?
What US policy angered Northerners and fueled discontent after the passing of the Compromise of 1850?
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Went west to escape religious persecution.
Who are the Mormons?
The dilemma of what to call Anglo-Saxon people living in Texas in the pre-Texas revolution era was resolved by what title?
What are Texians?
The Mexican-American War lasted from 1846-1848, the immediate cause of which was Mexico's army firing upon American troops along the Rio Grande. What did President Polk want from Mexico at the time that contributed to higher tensions and eventual war?
What was California and New Mexico?
What aspect of the Kansas-Nebraska Act led to immediate panic from people living near the territories?
What is popular sovereignty for Kansas and Nebraska territories?
What nickname does the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 have and why?
What is Bleeding Kansas, named for the violence between the two sides which created warlike conditions within the territory?