Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny means this.
What is Obvious Fate?
What is Texas?
This French Ruler sold Louisiana Territory to the US in 1803.
Who was Napoleon Bonaparte?
These animals were most often chose to travel the Oregon Trail because of their hardy disposition.
What are oxen?
Gold was found in this territory in 1848.
This journalist coined the Phrase "Manifest Destiny"
Who is John O'Sullivan
The Mexican American war broke out because the United states made this action.
What is the Annexation of Texas?
This duo surveyed the Louisiana Territory and gathered information about newly discovered plant and animal species.
This city "on the edge of civilization" was a commonly considered the starting point of the Oregon Trail.
What is Independence?
Of all of the immigrants who came to be apart of the Gold Rush, this people group was most bullied by their white counterparts
Who are the Chinese?
In the spirit of Manifest Destiny, This first land acquisition would double the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Texas gained its independence from Mexico for how many years before being annexed by the US.
What is 10 years?
This builder found gold at Sutter's Mill in 1848.
Who is James Marshall?
This man found a path to Oregon through the Rocky Mountains that was low and flat enough for wagons to cross.
Who was Jedediah Smith?
The nickname for those who joined the Gold Rush.
What are the Forty niners?
This painting by John Gast, shows Columbia, the female figure of America, leading Americans into the West and into the future.
What is American Progress?
After years of battle, Mexico and the US signed this treaty in 1848, ending the Mexican American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago?
This future President invaded Florida and restored order by force in 1818.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
Often dangerous, settlers who risked the trail often faced death, and this statistic expressed how many graves per a certain distance.
What are 10 graves per mile?
Between 1848 and 1849, the population of California grew to this size.
what is 25,000
This purchase completed the quest for Manifest Destiny and ended Westward Expansion.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
Britain and the US avoided war by settling on this coordinate to share Oregon Territory.
What is the 49th Parallel?
The man continued his father's work by starting an American colony in Texas.
Who is Stephen Austin?
Settlers described Oregon Country as being without disease, always sunny, and that farms were free for the taking. Many settlers believed this would be this for their families.
What is a new beginning?
While many who flocked to the gold rush were Americans, this fraction came from China, Australia, Mexico, South America, and Europe.