What's yours is Mine
The idea that the U.S. was to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean
Manifest Destiny
Western mountain range that pioneers navigated through.
Rocky Mountains
Route where many native travel on as they relocated. Many passed from harsh conditions and disease.
Trail of Tears
The annexation of this land is a cause of the U.S. war with Mexico.
Texas
Powered boats upstream and railroads.
Steam Engine
Purchase by Tomas Jefferson in 1803, this land acquisition gave the U.S. control of the Mississippi River and expanded the president's implied powers.
Louisiana Purchase (1803)
Inspired settlers to travel to California.
Gold Rush
President that signed the Indian Removal Act
Andrew Jackson
The U.S. claimed this river as the border
Rio Grande
The first explores in an area.
Pioneers
The addition of Texas in the Union.
Texas Annexation
Oregon Territory
This native group was forced to moved out of Georgia after gold was found on their land.
Cherokee
Mexico claimed this river as the border.
Nueces River
Moving to a new country with the intent of settling there.
Immigrant Immigration
Your state needs 5,000 to self-govern, 60,00 to apply for statehood, no slavery allowed, school in every town.
Northwest Ordinance
NFL team inspired by the year pioneers came to California for the Gold Rush.
San Francisco 49ers
Which territory were the natives forced to relocate to.
Oklahoma
This issue cause debates between the North and South following the Mexican Cession.
Slavery
Living in the countryside with farms.
Rural
President that won the election of 1844 on the ideas and goals of "Manifest Destiny."
James K. Polk (1844 - 1848)
They settled in UTAH to escape religious persecution.
Mormons
Native woman that aided Louis & Clark as they charted and mapped the Louisiana Purchase.
Sacagawea
This ended the U.S. Mexico War for $15 million and set the border at the Rio Grande River
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
Living in the city
Urban
When fighting for Oregon, Americans screamed chanted this slogan for the border they wanted.
"54*40' of Fight"
Trail used for military and trading with New Mexico
Santa Fe Trail
This war weakened Native American resistance.
War of 1812
The Southwestern land the U.S. gained from Mexico.
Mexican Cession
Name of railway that connected Eastern and Western U.S.
Transcontinental Railroad