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The phrase coined by the journalist John O'Sullivan in 1845
What is Manifest destiny
Mexican contributions to mining
western saddle, cattle roping, words like bronco and canyon
Name of the treaty that gave the US the Mexican Cession.
What was The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This was meant to protect farmers' access to the Mississippi River and Port of New Orleans
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
The reason many Chinese immigrants went to California.
What was the gold rush?
this is how Texas became a part of the US.
What is annexation?
Mexican contributions to sheep raising
churro sheep, well organized businesses
acquiring territory in Arizona and New Mexico to build a southern railroad route across the country.
What was 1853 Gadsden Purchase?
lasted from 1846-1848, this was caused by Mexico firing on American troops along the Rio Grande. Mexico did not want to sell Polk California and New Mexico.
What was Mexican-American War?
They also had to cook, clean, and care for children on the journey west.
Who were the pioneer women?
Florida was sold by this country to the US
What is Spain?
Mexican contributions to architecture
patios, verandas, red roof tiles, stucco
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?
Lands from California to New Mexico, American gained in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848.
What was Mexican Cession?
Mexico opened land for American colonization in this future state
What was Texas?
(1803) was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million.
What is Louisiana Purchase?
Polk's campaign slogan regarding Oregon
What was 54 -40 or fight?
Forced march of Native Americans from the southeastern US to the West
What is the Trail of Tears?
The US wanted this territory in order to stop raids by Native Americans.
What is Florida?
They helped open California to further settlement.
Who were the Californios?
Went west to escape religious persecution.
Who are the Mormons?
Worked on cattle ranches in one of few jobs open to African Americans
Who were the African American cowboys?
Food that was native to Mexico included
chocolate, beans, squash, avocado
Corridos are:
The loss of this forced indigenous people on the Great Plains onto reservations.
the bison