Westward Expansion 1
What were the 5 groups affected by Westward expansion?
Enslaved peoples
Native Americans
Mexicans
Oregon Trail Pioneers
Gold Rush miners/businessmen
What is Manifest Destiny?
The idea the the United States has a God-given right to expand all throughout the North American continent.
Why did people travel westward to California?
The Gold Rush
What was the topic the North and the South had argued over many of years, leading up to the Civil War.
Slavery
Define Westward Expansion
The 19th century movement of pioneers moving to the American West due to the belief of Manifest Destiny
What were the names of the 2 pioneers who set of on an expedition, reaching the Pacific coast to chart acquired land.
Lewis and Clark
List 2 dangers or difficulties pioneers faced on the Oregon Trail.
Hunger
Attacks from Native Americans
Wild animals
Getting lost
Etc...
Which act helped form new territories to the west of Missouri and caused people to populate that area to vote through popular sovereignty, whether that territory would be slave or free.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Why is the term "Westward Expansion" false?
Not all groups moved west
Slaves moved South
Mexicans moved North
Chinese moved East
What is a pioneer?
A person moving west
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
When the U.S bought land from France (known as the Louisiana territory).
What admitted Missouri into the union as a slave state and Maine admitted as a free state?
The Missouri Compromise
What was the name of the land the U.S acquired after the Mexican-American War?
Mexican Cession
What were some inventions that made Westward expansion easier? Name at least one.
Telegraph
Intercontinental Railroad
Barbed wire fences
What law/act forced Native Americans to move to the land west of the Mississippi River?
Indian Removal Act
What were the violent attacks causing bloodshed in the Kansas territory?
Bleeding Kansas
What country did we purchase the Louisiana territory from?
France
What route did a majority of pioneers traveled on to move westward?
The Oregon Trail
What is a homestead?
Free land given to settlers who moved west to farm on
What was the compromise that admitted California into the union as a free state but allowed newly acquired territory to decide on slavery through voting?
The Compromise of 1850