Manifest Destiny Vocabulary #1
(1853) Additional purchase of Mexican land for $10 million to build railroads
Gadsden Purchase
Agreement ending the U.S.- Mexican War resulting in the Mexican Cession
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
(1845) Congress voted to annex Texas, 28th state to join union
Annexation of Texas
(1787) Regulations on admitting new territories as states in the Union
Northwest Ordinance
People involved in California Gold Rush
Forty-Niners
Belief America should own land from Atlantic to Pacific Ocean
Manifest Destiny
(1836) Led by Sam Houston, won independence and became its own country.
Texas Revolution
People who travel to uninhabited areas to live.
Settlers
(1849) people rushed to California to get rich.
California Gold Rush
2,000 mile journey from Kansas City, Missouri to Oregon City, Oregon.
Oregon Trail
(1803) Purchase of land from France, West of the Mississippi to Rocky Mountains
Louisiana Purchase
(1830) Religious group found in Upstate New York by Joseph Smith
Mormons
Polk declared war on Mexico, Mexico was defeated
U.S. - Mexican War
Shared control between the U.S. and Britain of Northwest North America
Oregon Territory
Purchase of Florida from Spain for $5 million
Adam-Onis Treaty
11th President of the U.S., Pro-westward expansion
James K. Polk
(1848) Purchase of a large piece of land in the west for $15 million
Mexican Cession
Permanent migration of people to a foreign country
Immigration