Politics
American President during the Mexican-American War.
Who is James K. Polk
The sale of land by France to Thomas Jefferson and the United States
What is The Louisiana Purchase
The war fought between the United States and Mexico from 1846-1848
What is the Mexican-American War?
This vehicle, developed during the Industrial Revolution, was important to westward expansion
What is a Train?
What is the Gold Rush?
An 1830 law that authorized the forceful removal of Native Americans from their ancestral lands east of the Mississippi river to west of the Mississippi
What is the Indian Removal Act?
A group of explorers who traveled west to map the new territory and to collect samples
Territory annexed from Mexico
What is Texas?
The canal that begins in Albany and goes across New York State
What is the Erie Canal?
Overcrowded cities and a lack of employment opportunities were a motivation to move to where?
What is the West?
As a symbol of neutrality during the Napoleonic wars, this law in 1807 prevented Americans from trading goods with other countries
What is the Embargo Act?
The river that acted as a border between the States in the East and the new frontier in the West
What is the Mississippi River
An issue that divided the U.S. between North and South. (Human beings owning other human beings)
Slavery
What is the Oregon Trail?
Free land offered by the federal government to individuals or groups
What is Land Grants
A declaration by the United States that opposed any European influence within North and South America.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
A legally defined area of land set aside by the federal government, typically for Native Americans
What is a reservation?
What is the Gold Rush?
What is a covered wagon?
Overemphasized political, economic, and social loyalty to a specific region of a country instead of the entire country.
What is Sectionalism?
An act in 1862 that offered 160 acres of land to Americans who were willing to cultivate/farm it for 5 years.
What is The Homestead Act?
The forceful removal of Native Americans (particularly the Cherokee) from their ancestral lands to reservations in present-day Oklahoma
What is the Trail of Tears?
The start of the Oregon Trail
What is Independence, Missouri?
A belief held by Americans that it was their right, given by God, to own all of the land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
What is Manifest Destiny?