Frontier Draws Settlers
What was the term used in expressing their belief that it was the United States’ destiny to stretch from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean?
What is Manifest Destiny?
Which tribes fought in the Black Hawk War?
What are Saux and Fox?
Traders loaded their covered wagons with ______, _______, and ______, and set off toward Santa Fe.
Cloth, Knives, and Guns.
Manifest Destiny
A term that expressed the belief that it was the United States’ destiny to stretch from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
What kind of opportunities were people seeking in the west?
What are Economic Opportunities? (A.k.a Jobs, Careers, etc.)
What was the Land west of Mississippi that neither Native Americans nor settlers dominated? White Settlers want to use it as a trading point with Native Americans.
What was the Middle Ground?
Who led the Mormons?
Who is Joseph Smith?
Santa Fe Trail
A trail that was 780 miles from Independence, Missouri, to Santa Fe, New Mexico.
In which decade did the move westward become super popular? (ex. 2010s, 2000s, 1990s, etc.)
What is 1840s
How was Black Hawk convince to lead the tribes to reclaim their land?
What was a prophet had a vision that included Black Hawk as a leader gaining their land back?
Who was Joseph Smith's Successor?
Who is Brigham Young?
Oregon Trail
A trial that started in Independence, Missouri, and ended in Portland, Oregon, in the Willamette Valley
What mainly contributed to alluring people to the west?
What is Abundance of Land?
What allowed Native Americans to gain control of the Central Plains and land east of the Rocky Mountains that was north of the Arkansas River to Canada and in exchange, Native Americans would not attack the settlers?
What is the Treaty of Fort Laramie?
Where did Smith and his followers settle in 1839?
What is Nauvoo, Illinois?
Mormons
Members of a church founded by Joseph Smith and his associates in 1830.
What are Lumbers, Trappers, Miners, Farmers and Merchants?
What happened to Black Hawk after the war?
Black Hawk turned himself in, but later got a release if he does not take part in any rebellion
Where did Brigham Young and his followers move to in 1847?
To the edge of the lonely desert near the Great Salt Lake.
Treaty of Fort Laramie
The treaty requiring the Sioux to live on a reservation along the Missouri River.