Manifest Destiny
Go West Young Man
River School
Land Acquisitions
Potpourri
100
The definition of Manifest Destiny.
What is a belief that it was the "God-given" destiny that America would expand westward or from coast to coast?
100
The people who rushed to California in search of gold.
What is 49ers?
100
American Art Movement
What is the Hudson River School?
100
This acquisition doubled the amount of territory for the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
100
The group of Americans that first crossed the western part of the United States.
What is the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
200
The person who coined the term, Manifest Destiny.
Who is John O'Sullivan?
200
Someone first to settle a region or enter into a project.
What is a pioneer?
200
Hudson River School paintings depicted this.
What is nature?
200
Texas joined the union under this president.
Who is James K. Polk?
200
This person spoke of creating an "Empire of Liberty."
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
300
The war that completed Manifest Destiny.
What is the Mexican-American War?
300
The below route that many pioneers took westward.
What is the Oregon Trail?
300
Hudson River School artists believed that nature in the form of the American landscape was a reflection of this.
What is God?
300
This treaty ceded much of Mexico's northern territory to the United States.
What is the Treat of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
300
First Organized Territory in the United States.
What is the Northwest Territory?
400
The war that Manifest Destiny helped to encourage.
What is the Civil War?
400
The name of the party that ran into trouble heading west to California.
What is the Donner Party?
400
Paintings of the Hudson River typically depicted the Hudson River Valley and these mountain ranges.
What are the Catskills, Adirondacks, and White Mountains?
400
The agreement where Spain gave up all of Florida and its claims to Oregon.
What is the Adams–Onís Treaty?
400
This country existed for 25 days, was never recognized by any other country, and became a territory of the United States.
What is the Bear Flag Republic?
500
The three big events associated with Manifest Destiny.
What is the Oregon Territory Dispute, the Mexican-American War, and the California Gold Rush?
500
The place where the Mormons headed.
What is the Great Salt Lake?
500
The three themes of America in the 19th Century that the Hudson River School reflects.
What are discovery, exploration, and settlement?
500
The reason that the United States was willing to divide Oregon.
What is to minimize Great Britain's power in North America?
500
The reason for a large number of Irish immigrants coming during Manifest Destiny.
What is the Potato Famine?