Trails
This trail was the most popular trail.
Oregon Trail
This land acquisition was the result of the American Revolutionary War.
The Thirteen Colonies
Belief that America was destine to expand west regardless of who lived there.
Manifest Destiny
An agreement where both sides get something they want.
Compromise
This invention led to an increased demand for the labor of enslaved people.
Cotton Gin
This trail was traveled for religious freedom.
Mormon Trail
This land acquisition almost doubled the United States overnight.
Louisiana Purchase
Americans believed it was their destiny to spread 4 main things. 200 points for each one you get correct.
Religion, Language, Culture, Government
To improve the way something is done.
Reform
The name of the enslaved man that traveled with Lewis and Clark.
York
This trail was traveled by those in search of wealth.
California Trail
This land acquisition was one of the causes of the Mexican-American War.
Texas Annexation
California had the largest population of people from all around the world because of this event in history.
California Gold Rush
Become larger or taking over more territory.
Expansion
The Missouri Compromise added these two states to the Union.
Missouri and Maine
This trail was traveled by those wanting to trade with northern Mexico.
Santa Fe Trail
This land acquisition was the result of the Mexican-American War.
Mexican Cession
Bad weather, Native Americans and various diseases were dangers along this iconic route.
The Oregon Trail
Used to communicate over long distances through electric pulses.
Telegraph
The South agreed to allow California in the Union as a free state in exchange for this Act.
Fugitive Slave Act
This is what the items left on the side of the road along the Oregon trail we called.
Leaverites
This land was acquired because the U.S. wanted to build a transcontinental railroad on the land.
Gadsden Purchase
Americas "special mission" (their destiny) was first talked about by John Winthrop in his 1630 sermon titled...
A Model of Christian Charity
The key to understanding the electronic pulses sent by the telegraph.
Morse Code
The Kansas-Nebraska Act used this principle to determine whether the new states would be free states or slave states.
Popular Sovereignty