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this president signed the Indian removal act
who is Andrew jackson?
This purchase doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This trail was used by settlers traveling west.
What is the Oregon Trail?
Manifest Destiny helped the U.S. grow in this direction.
What is west?
This forced journey killed thousands of Native Americans.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This president supported westward expansion and helped lead to the annexation of Texas.
Who is John Tyler?
This law forced Native Americans to move west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This state joined the U.S. in 1845 after being independent.
What is Texas?
Expansion increased arguments over this issue.
What is slavery?
Native Americans were moved to these government lands.
What are reservations?
this president supported westward expansion and expanded the size of the United state with the louisiana purchase
who is Tomas jefferson?
This war added a large amount of land to the U.S.
What is the Mexican-American War?
This discovery brought thousands of people to California.
What is the Gold Rush?
This violent event happened in Kansas over slavery.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
Native Americans lost much of this because of westward expansion.
What is land?
he led the Texas army to independence from Mexico and later became U.S president.
who is Sam Houston?
This treaty ended the Mexican-American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This land was gained after the Mexican-American War.
What is the Mexican Cession?
This agreement tried to keep peace between free and slave states.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Many Native American cultures were harmed by this policy.
What is assimilation?
This president issued a foreign policy warning European nations not to interfere in the Western Hemisphere, helping protect U.S. expansion.i
Who is James Monroe?
This act gave free land to settlers willing to farm it.
What is the Homestead Act?
This purchase helped the U.S. build a southern railroad.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
Manifest Destiny was one cause of this major U.S. war.
What is the Civil War?
This is the name for groups of Native Americans with shared culture and land.
What are tribes?