Settlers
This was name of both an important path to the West and an awesome video game
The Oregon Trail
Who was Dred Scott?
Dred Scott was a slave and social activist who served several masters before suing for his freedom. His case made it to the Supreme Court prior to the American Civil War
Define Annexation
a formal act whereby a state proclaims its sovereignty over territory hitherto outside its domain
Who coined the phrase manifest destiny?
editor John O'Sullivan
The boundary line in the Missouri Compromise that separated the North from the South
Parallel 36 30' North
This religious group was forced West by persecution
The Mormons
Describe the Kansas-Nebraska Act
An act that superseded The Missouri Compromise and allowed the territories in that state to decide whether or not they were to be free or slave territories based on popular sovereignty.
Define Manifest Destiny
What year was the phrase Manifest Destiny coined?
1845
Who was Joseph Smith
The Mormon religion beings with Joseph Smith. He establishes his church in New York. The Mormons were not welcomed because they were ostracized. The Mormons decide to move to Illinois, but the people of Illinois hate them as well. Within five years, twenty-thousand Mormons lived in Illinois, which angers the citizens. Joseph Smith is murdered. The Mormons are lead from Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah. They are lead by their new leader, Brigham Young. Young brings them out west to avoid persecution.
This was the type of wagon that Americans used to cross the West
Conestoga Wagon
What year were Maine and Missouri are added to the U.S?
1820
Who was the president during the age of Westward Expansion?
James K. Polk
What causes Manifest Destiny to gain momentum?
response to the prospect of U.S. annexation of Texas and to a dispute with Britain over the Oregon Country
What was one of the major issues people had with Mormons?
Polygamy
To escape famine and hardship in their native lands
Describe the Dred Scott Decision
A Missouri slave sued for his freedom, claiming that his four-year stay in the northern portion of the Louisiana Territory made free land by the Missouri Compromise had made him a free man. The U.S, Supreme Court decided he couldn't sue in federal court because he was property, not a citizen.
Define 49'ers
People or migrated West in search of gold
What did the Treaty Of Guadalupe Hidalgo do?
The war officially ended on February 2, 1848, signing in Mexico of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The treaty added an additional 525,000 square miles to United States territory, including the land that makes up all or parts of present-day Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.
Describe the Bear Flag Revolution
1846 - a small army under Colonel Stephen W. Kearny captured Santa Fe with no opposition. Kearny then went to California to join a conflict already in progress. He brought the American forces under his command and had captured California.
This party lost half of its members on its way West, and some of them engaged in cannibalism
The Donner Party
Describe the Missiori Compromise
Agreement made to keep the balance of slave and free states equal. Missouri was added as a slave state and Maine was added as a free state in 1821.
This painting symbolized what Americans envisioned as their Manifest Destin
The painting American Progress by John Gast
Describe the Oregon Trail or the Santa Fe Trail
The Oregon Trail is a 2,200-mile historic east-west large-wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon.
The Santa Fe Trail was a 19th-century transportation route through central North America that connected Franklin, Missouri with Santa Fe, New Mexico.
What fueled Manifest Destiny
American idealism, commercial interests and increasing power all were factors of it