Manifest destiny 1
God-given right to settle the west.
What is Manifest destiny?
The U.S. and Great Britain agreed on a compromise that the Oregon territory would be separated at this line of latitude
What is the 49th degree of Latitude which is the current border with Canada?
Nickname for immigrants migrating to California during the gold rush.
Who were the 49ers?
year Jefferson bought Louisiana
What was 1803?
Texans should never forget what they should always remember, which was this.
What was the Alamo?
Land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Trail used for international trading.
What was the Santa Fe Trail?
Group of people who traveled the path west from Illinois to Salt Lake City
Who are the Mormons?
Number of terms served by James K. Polk
What is one?
general/dictator of Mexico, lead the Mexican War, defeated the Texans at The Alamo and was captured at San Jacinto.
Who was General Santa Anna?
Florida was sold by this country to the US
What is Spain?
This treaty ceded Florida to the United States
What is the Adams-Onis Treaty?
The route over which settlers traveled west in the 1840s and 1850s; trails branched off from it toward Utah and California.
What was Oregon Trail?
5 US states that were partially or completely contained in the Mexican Cession.
What are California, Nevada, Utah, most of Arizona, the western half of New Mexico, the western quarter of Colorado, and the southwest corner of Wyoming?
American who led the first settlers of Texas.
Who was Stephen F. Austin?
What word represents how Texas became a part of the US?
What is annexation?
The 1818 Convention Treaty settled disputes concerning our northern border. This agreement was between the US and this nation.
Who was Great Britain (also acceptable, England)?
The name for the purchase of land in Arizona and New Mexico to build a southern railroad route across the country.
What was the Gadsden Purchase (1853)?
The years of the Mexican-American war? (Or, at least, year the Mexican-American war started)
What was 1846-48?
One of President Polk's accomplishments.
What was settle the Oregon boundary, added land to the US (complete Manifest Destiny)?
He coined the phrase in 1845 defining that America had the God-given right to expand west--manifest destiny. John O' _____________
Who is John O'Sullivan?
Jefferson used this Senate constitutional power to buy Louisiana.
What was the treaty-making power?
Name of the treaty that gave the US the Mexican Cession.
Who was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
number and name of the Manifest Destiny president
Who was James K. Polk (#11th president)?
The Mexican Cession opened up a question about this topic and Henry Clay had to come up with another compromise.
What is slavery?