Manifest destiny
What is Manifest Destiny?
The belief that it was the obvious fate for Americans to conquer all of north America
Who is Lewis and Clark?
Who is 2 explorers who were the first to reach the Pacific Ocean?
Name some jobs or the Mountain Men.
What is Adventurers, Explores, Trappers, Army scouts, and Traders?
The hope of Christian Missionaries.
What is many Christian Indians?
State what the Forty-Niners looked for.
What is Gold?
Reason why the french were willing to sell the Louisiana territory?
They were on the brink of war with britain.
The President that hired Lewis and Clark to travel into the Oregon Territory.
Who is President Andrew Jackson?
Define Pioneer?
What is people or a person who are the first to explore a new place or territory?
Who were Mormons?
What is members of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints?
Amount of money made from gold during the Gold Rush.
What is around 750,000 pounds of gold, 2.7 billion dollars today?
Describe the arguments against the Louisiana purchase?
What is it was $15 million, and was too much land to govern?
Number one industry in California during the 1830s.
What is ranching?
State why Mountain men tolerated a difficult life.
What is because of the freedom and adventure that came with it?
Define a missionary.
Who is a person who tries to spread a religion, specifically Christianity?
How were the Chinese treated after not leaving after the miner's tax was imposed?
What is they were harassed, assaulted, and had their houses burned down?
Describe some problems the Americans faced trying to reach the Oregon territory.?
rough conditions and trails, conflicts with some native groups
The person who John C. Fremont hired for his expeditions into California.
Who is Kit Carson?
What did Annie Bidwell do to help the growth of California?
What is created the first Church, and taught Native women and children how to read and write english?
Name a differences between the Missionaries and Mormons.
What is the Mormons supported polygamy (marrying multiple women), while Missionaries did not?
Approximately how many Chinese immigrants came to the U.S.
What is approximately 20,000 Chinese?
The 2 people who joined the Lewis and Clark expeditions as translators and navigators.
Who is Sacagawea and Toussaint Charbonneau?
Fruits the Californios introduced to California that became its "famous crops".
What is Grapes, Olives, and Citrus Fruits?
The 2 trails the Mountain Men created.
What is the Oregon and California trails?
Founder of the Mormon church.
Who is Joseph Smith?
Where did the Chinese immigrants go instead of mining?
What is go to San Francisco and start businesses?