Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny
100
The belief that Americans had the right and the duty to spread across the continent to the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Manifest Destiny?
100
Helped move crops and supplies, allowed settlers to stay connected
What did the railroads do
100
United States historian who stressed the role of the western frontier in American history (1861-1951)
Who is Frederick Jackson Turner
100
Key characteristic of American culture
What was the West responsible for?
200
The opportunity to start over, and possibly to strike it rich by dint of one's own individual effort.
What did the western frontier represent?
200
Opened land for colonization
Who opened land for colonization?
200
1871
When was US Treaty System ended?
200
the transfer of land from one country to another
What is the Cession
200
American pioneers
Who were the Mountain Men
300
He wrote an editorial that first mentioned the term "Manifest Destiny"
Who is John O' Sullivan?
300
Indians lost 86 million of the 138 million acres of land in their possession.
What happened after the passage of the Dawes act?
300
separated the wild west and the Oregon Trail
What is the civil war?
300
They kicked off increasing conflicts that lasted until 1890
What did the settlers do?
300
They were used as guides because of their vast knowledge of the lands
Why were the Mountain Men important?
400
The abolitionist opposed expansion, particularly if it would bring slave territories into the union.
What is the the Abolitionist?
400
Boarding Schools
Who separated those american children from families?
400
Native Indians lost 86 million acres of land after this
What happened in the Dawes act?
400
He set out to destroy the Indians way of life burning villages and killing the horses.
Who is General Philip H.
400
19th-century transportation route through central North America that connected Independence, Missouri with Santa Fe, New Mexico.
What was the Santa Fe Trail?
500
A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
What is Imperalism?
500
The act of taking over or seizing something, especially land or territory.
What is the annexation?
500
(1803) was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S.
What is the Louisiana purchase?
500
The name given to several routes used by settlers traveling to California in the nineteenth century.
What is the California Trail?
500
This was caused by Mexico firing on American troops along the Rio Grande. Mexico did not want to sell Polk California and New Mexico
How was the Mexican-American war caused ?
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