Manifest Destiny
Texas Annexation
Mexican- American War
The Gold Rush
Vocabulary
100

The belief that the US was meant to grow and spread across North America

Manifest Destiny
100

Before the US, this country controlled the land of Texas.

Mexico

100
One state that the US got as a result of the Mexican-American War

California, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico

100

State gold was discovered in 

California

100

The time in US history when settlers moved west across the United States to explore, live, and claim new land

Westward Expansion

200

The forced walk after the relocation of Native Americans, particularly the Cherokee Nation, from their ancestral lands in the southeastern United States to territories west of the Mississippi River in the 1830s and 1840s.

Trail of Tears

200

This side won the Battle of the Alamo

Mexico

200

Cause of the Mexican American War

Texas Annexation, Boundary dispute, US wanted California

200

Easterners who came a year after the gold rush began were referred to by this term.

49ers

200

A law that allowed the forced relocation of Native Americans

Indian Removal Act

300

Name of purchase that Thomas Jefferson made that almost doubled the size of the United States

Louisiana Purchase


300

The Battle at the Alamo led to

Texas gaining independence from Mexico

300
This was the name of wide swath of land the Americans took at the conclusion of the Mexican American War.
The Mexican Cession
300
This year was the first year during which the Gold Rush occurred.
1848 (or 1849)
300

The act of giving up something

Cession

400
This party lost half of its members on its way West, and some of them engaged in cannibalism.
The Donner Party
400

This man was the leader of Mexico during the fight for Texas independence

Santa Anna

400
This was the name of the treaty that ended the Mexican American War.
Guadalupe-Hidalgo
400
This law was used to drive many Mexican miners from California.
Foreign Miners Tax
400

The edge of settled regions

Frontier

500

In 1819, Spain agreed to “sell” this territory, the Spanish Cession, to the United States- the U.S. kind of “bullied” its way to gaining this land!

Florida

500

The amount of time Texas was an independent state before being annexed to the United States

9 years

500
This man was president during the Mexican American War.
James K. Polk
500

Person that found the first piece of gold

James Marshall

500

The first people to go on a journey

Pioneer

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