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What is the definition of Expansion?
What is the definition of becoming larger or more extensive?
When was the Oregon Treaty signed?
Who is John O'Sullivan?
Who is the person who first coined the term "Manifest Destiny"?
What is a positive effect of Manifest Destiny for the Americans?
What is the expansion of the United States westward?
What did Manifest Destiny "justify"?
What is the forced removal of Native Americans, as well as the expansion of the United States westward?
What is the definition of Colonization?
What is the action or process of settling among and establishing control over the Indigenous people of an area?
When was the Mexican-American War?
When is 1846-1848?
Who is James K. Polk?
Who is the 11th president of the United States who served during this time period?
What is the name of the war that happened during Apr 25, 1846 – Feb 2, 1848?
What is the Mexican-American War?
True or False: The amount of valuable natural resources in the west was used as a reason for expansion.
What is true?
What is the definition of Imperialism?
What is the maintaining and extending of power over foreign nations, particularly through expansionism?
When did the United States annex Texas?
When is December 29th, 1845
Who are Meriwether Lewis and William Clark?
Who are the people who led the first major exploration of the newly purchased Louisiana Territory?
What were the Native Americans forced to do?
What is the forced relocation west of the Mississippi River?
What is a political reason that Americans used to justify Manifest Destiny?
What is the expansion of democracy and freedom?
What is the definition of Annexation?
What is the forcible acquisition and assertion of legal title over one state's territory by another state?
When did the California Gold Rush Happen?
When is 1848-1855?
Who is Stephen Austin?
Who is the person who led the first significant group of American settlers into Texas, which was a key step in American Expansion in the area?
How did the expansion of the United States effect its economy and population?
What is the economy and population of the United States greatly increased?
True or False: Americans did not use their belief that they were the superior race as justification for Manifest Destiny.
What is false?
What is the definition of Manifest Destiny?
What is the imperialist belief in the 19th-century United States that American settlers were destined to expand westward across North America?
When did the Gadsden Purchase happen?
When is 1853?
Who is Stephen W. Kearny?
Who is a military command who is known for their significant contributions in the Mexican–American War, especially the Conquest of California?
In what order did the United States acquire territory and settled with the justification of Manifest Destiny?
What is the Louisiana Purchase, Texas Annexation, Oregon Territory, Mexican Cession, and Gadsden Purchase?
What religious reason did Americans used to justify Manifest Destiny?
What is the belief that it was their God given right to conquer the territories of North America?