General Westward Expansion
Forces Leading Westward Expansion
Westward Expansion Trails
Indian Removal Act and the Trail of Tears
Texas Revolution
100
This is the term used to describe the movement of people from East to West in the 19th Century.
Westward Expansion
100
These are factors that encourage and motivate people to move.
Push Factors
100
This is the longest route out of all Westward Expansion Trails. This was used by Christian missionaries, miners, farmers, ranchers, business owners, adventurers and more.
Oregon Trail
100
This president was responsible for passing the Indian Removal Act of 1830. He is also the 7th president of the United States.
Andrew Jackson
100
This is the Mexican Priest that led a rebellion of about 80,000 poor Native Americans and mestizos.
Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
200
This is the idea that God chose the American people to go across the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
Manifest Destiny
200
These are factors that encourage people to move somewhere else to live.
Pull Factors
200
The Mormon Trail was named after which Christian denomination
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
200
This is an area of land that is set for North American Native Americans to live.
Reservation
200
This is a young agent that started a Texas colony on the lower Colorado River in 1821.
Stephen F. Austin
300
This is the person that coined the term "Manifest Destiny" during the 19th century (1800s)
John O' Sullivan
300
Give an example of a push factor. Give an example of a pull factor.
Push Factors: Few services, Lack of job opportunities, Unhappy life, Poor transport links, Natural disasters, Wars, Shortage of Food
Pull Factors: Access to services, Better job opportunities, More entertainment facilities, Better transport links, Improved living conditions, Hope for a better way of life, Family links
300
What is the difference between immigrants and emigrants?
Immigrants: moving from country to country
Emigrants: moving from state to state; within one country
300
This is the idea that Native Americans were their own separate nations.
Tribal Sovereignty
300
This is a general that gave himself more power and suspended Mexico's republican constitution.
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
400
This is the negotiated deal between U.S. and France. The largest territorial acquisition in the United States.
Louisiana Purchase
400
There were two main inventions that helped settlers in the West. Name one of them.
Barbed Wire and/or the Telegraph
400
Which trail does the Mormon Trail follow, before ending its journey in Salt Lake City, Utah?
The Oregon Trail
400
In the Southeast United States, there were five significant tribal nations. Name all five.
Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Seminole, and Cherokee
400
What is the phrase that Texans used to stand against against Mexican dictatorship, and today the flag's meaning remains rooted in Texas pride. (Hint: this was written in a wedding dress!)
Come and Take It
500
Provide a benefit and a consequence of Westward Expansion.
Pros: Good for the U.S., the United States doubled in size, access to new resources and opportunities for economic growth, created many new states
Cons: Hard for Native Americans, many people had already been settled there, decisions of the laws were very difficult which would allow slavery
500
______________ ____________ is the increase in steamboats, canals and railroads. This made transportation cheaper and faster.
Transportation Revolution
500
The Santa Fe Trail was the route that connected from Missouri to New Mexico. Even if it was the shortest, what was the main problem that made this trail dangerous?
Although this was used the most because it was shorter and quicker, water was SCARCE.
500
What were the main reasons was to why Native Americans died through the Trail of Tears? Name all three.
Lack of food, Exposure to inappropriate weather, Illness
500
This is the battle in which the Texans captured Santa Anna and forced him to sing a treaty, giving Texas its independence.
Battle of San Jacinto