The Philosophy of Moving West
The 19th-century belief that the U.S. had a "God-given mission" to expand to the Pacific.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This trail started in Independence, Missouri, and ended in Oregon City.
What is the Oregon Trail?
This is the term for Mexicans who considered Texas their home.
Who are Tejanos?
This treaty ended the Mexican-American War and gave the U.S. the Southwest.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This is the year gold was discovered in northern California.
What is 1848?
This 1837 event caused an economic depression that pushed many Americans to leave the East.
What is the Panic of 1837
This group traveled from Illinois to Utah seeking religious freedom.
Who are the Mormons?
The famous "rallying cry" used by Texans after a major loss to Mexico.
What is "Remember the Alamo!"?
The U.S. bought a strip of land in 1853 for $10 million to build this.
What is a railroad?
During the Gold Rush, these people often made more money than the miners.
Who are merchants?
Besides land, many Americans moved West to open up trade with this continent.
What is Asia
He was the leader who took over the Mormon movement after Joseph Smith.
Who is Brigham Young?
He was the U.S. President elected in 1844 on a platform of Manifest Destiny.
Who is James K. Polk?
This is the specific name of the 1853 land purchase in southern Arizona and New Mexico.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
This economic term describes why prices for scarce resources became so high for miners.
What is inflation?
Expanding the nation increased heated political debates over this specific, controversial issue.
What is slavery?
Settlers on the Oregon Trail faced their greatest physical hardships crossing this mountain range.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
The Mexican-American War began because of a dispute over this specific river border.
What is the Rio Grande?
Name 4 of the 6 modern-day states gained from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
What are California, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, or Utah?
Name the two California cities mentioned in the guide that grew rapidly because of the rush.
What are San Francisco and Sacramento?
Manifest Destiny was used to justify conflict with other nations and these people who were already on the land.
Who are Native peoples?
Describe the primary difference in purpose between the Oregon and Mormon trails.
Oregon was for settlement/land; Mormon was for religious freedom.
This is the year Texas was officially annexed (taken control of) by the United States.
What is 1845?
After the war, the U.S. took control of the Southwest from Texas all the way to this state.
What is California?
True or False: According to the study guide, the majority of miners found their fortune in gold.
False - many did not find gold.