Land Acquisition
The belief that the United States was meant to expand west to the Pacific Ocean.
What was Manifest Destiny?
The term used to describe the expansion of political power (voting) for the common people, namely white men without property.
Hint: Named for the president it helped elect.
What is Jacksonian Democracy?
The trail pioneers used to reach the Pacific Northwest.
What is The Oregon Trail?
The reason westward expansion was hard on Native Americans.
What is they lost their homes and land?
Term for African American soldiers in the West
What are Buffalo Soldiers?
Land from France that doubled the size of the U.S. at the time.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The name of the document that stated Europe should stay out of the Americas.
Hint: Named for the President whose idea it was.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Many families traveled in these for safety.
What are wagon trains?
The leader who tried to unite the tribes against Americans
Who is Tecumseh?
The immigration of the Irish was mainly caused by this.
What is the Irish Potato Famine?
The land gained after the Mexican-American War.
What is large area of Southwest, including California?
The main effect of the War of 1812
What is increased Nationalism?
The effects of westward expansion on the US economy.
What is it increased trade, farming, and mining?
The Native American guide for Lewis & Clark expedition.
Who is Sacagawea?
The name of the document outlining women's rights
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
This Act encouraged people to settle and farm land in the West.
What is the Homestead Act?
Double Jeopardy
Jefferson's Dilemma regarding the Louisiana Purchase.
What is his stance of being a strict constitutionalist vs the opportunity to purchase land?
This discovery caused a rapid increase in population in California.
What is the California Gold Rush?
The name of the movement in which the forced removal of Native American tribes from their land to reservations led to many deaths.
What is the Trail of Tears?
The reasons African Americans move west.
What are to escape discrimination and find opportunities?
They led the expedition to explore and map new territory.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
The reason President Polk was willing to go to war with Mexico.
What is To gain land in the Southwest, Manifest Destiny?
The long-term effect of westward expansion.
What is The U.S. became a continental nation.
This Act forced tens of thousands of Native Americans to leave their homelands.
What is The Indian Removal Act?
Women demanded this right.
What is voting rights?