Native Americans & the Revolution
Many Native American nations supported the ___________ because they believed this group would protect their lands.
Who is the British?
This belief said the United States was destined to expand across North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This treaty settled the North western boundary dispute between the United States and Britain.
What is the Oregon Treaty of 1846?
This canal connected the Great Lake to New York City, making trade faster and cheaper.
What is the Erie Canal?
During the presidency of this man, voting rights expanded to most white men even if they did not own land.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This law tried to stop colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
The United States gained Florida through this treaty with Spain.
What is the Adams-Onis Treaty?
The Oregon Treaty set the border between the U.S. and Canada at this line of latitude.
What is the 49th parallel?
This group of immigrants helped build the Erie Canal and gained economic opportunities from the project.
Who are Irish immigrants?
This term refers to the forced relocation of Native Americans from their lands to the west.
What is the Trail of Tears?
These four nations of the Iroquois Confederacy supported the British during the American Revolution.
Who are the Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga, and Onondaga?
This territory became part of the United States after a revolution against Mexico and later annexation.
What is Texas?
This agreement ended the Mexican-American War and gave the United States the Mexican Cession.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Because of improved transportation like canals and roads, goods could move more easily between these two regions.
What are the Great Lakes and New York City / Atlantic Coast?
Women on the frontier often experienced this situation: they gained new responsibilities but still faced these limits.
What are social and legal limits?
This treaty ended the American Revolution but gave Native American land to the United States without consulting them.
What is the Treaty of Paris (1783)?
The United States gained a huge amount of western lands after this war and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
What is the Mexican-American War?
This region included land that later became states like California, Nevada, and Utah.
What is the Mexican Cession?
The Erie Canal helped strengthen trade between western farmers and this major eastern city.
What is New York City?
Westward expansion often harmed Native Americans by forcing them off these types of lands.
What are ancestral lands?
After the Revolution, Native Americans often lost land through these "agreements".
What are unfair treaties / broken treaties?
One long-term effect of westward expansion was increased conflict between these two types of states.
What are slave states and free states?
This conflict between the U.S. and Mexico resulted from disputes over Texas and the southern border.
What is the Mexican-American War?
Transportation improvements like canals helped grow the U.S. economy by making this activity faster and cheaper.
What is trade / transportation of goods?
This federal law required government approval for land deals involving Native American tribes.
What is the Nonintercourse Act?