Manifest Destiny
The belief that the US was meant to grow and spread across North America
Before the US, this country controlled the land of Texas.
Mexico
California, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico
State gold was discovered in
California
The time in US history when settlers moved west across the United States to explore, live, and claim new land
Westward Expansion
This group was forced off their land as Americans moved west during Manifest Destiny.
Who are Native Americans?
This side won the Battle of the Alamo
Mexico
Cause of the Mexican American War
Texas Annexation, Boundary dispute, US wanted California
Easterners who came a year after the gold rush began were referred to by this term. (Foreign ...)
49ers
Cities that the pioneers would use to stock up on supplies and then head west from were called?
Jumping Off Cities
Name of purchase that Thomas Jefferson made that almost doubled the size of the United States
Louisiana Purchase
This was the year the United States officially annexed Texas.
What is 1845?
This was the name of wide swath of land the Americans took at the conclusion of the Mexican American War.
The Mexican Cession
This nickname was given to people who rushed to California for gold in 1849 (think of the football team)
Who are the Forty-Niners?
Land that belongs to and is governed by a country but is not a state is called this.
What is a territory?
Texas first won independence from this country in 1836.
What is Mexico?
This country fought the United States in the war from 1846–1848.
What is Mexico?
This word means to officially add land to a country.
What is annex
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
Famous American outdoors man that was killed at the Alamo and inspired revenge was?
Davy Crockett
One of the first people to discover large quantities of gold and become rich was?
James Marshall
The first people to go on a journey
Pioneer