Manifest Destiny
This 1849 event caused thousands of people to move to California.
What was the discovery of gold?
President Polk said Mexico had attacked American land. This led to this war.
What is the Mexican-American War?
Spain gave this territory to the United States in 1819.
What is Florida?
Thousands of people moved to California in 1849 because of this discovery.
What is gold?
This place in St. Augustine became a safe home for free Blacks in 1738.
What is Fort Mosé?
This phrase described the belief that the United States should stretch from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This treaty ended the Mexican-American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This treaty gave Florida to the United States.
What is the Adams-Onís Treaty?
The United States bought this land from Mexico to build a southern railroad.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
The Black Seminoles fought with the Seminoles because they wanted to avoid this.
What is being enslaved again (re-enslavement)?
The painting American Progress shows Americans spreading these things to the West Spain gave this territory to the United States in 1819.
What are technology, progress, and knowledge?
As part of the peace treaty, Mexico gave up about this much of its land.
What is about half of its territory?
These two Seminole leaders fought against removal from Florida.
Who are Osceola and Chief Billy Bowlegs?
Texas officially became part of the United States in 1846. This is called what?
What is annexation?
The Seminoles had an advantage in battle because they used this to help them fight.
What is their knowledge of the land and environment?
Adding new western states could upset this balance in Congress.
What is the balance between free states and slave states?
The border dispute that led to war was between these two rivers.
What are the Nueces River and the Rio Grande?
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U.S. soldiers fighting in Florida often struggled with this type of environment.
What are swamps, thick forests, and harsh conditions?
The United States and Great Britain agreed to divide Oregon at this line of latitude.
What is the 49th parallel?
Florida’s capital was moved to Tallahassee because it was located between these two areas.
What are East Florida and West Florida?
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Some Americans supported westward expansion because they wanted to expand this system of forced labor.
What is slavery?
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After the war, the_________ living in the new U.S. territories became U.S. Citizens.
Who are Mexicanos?
This treaty, signed near St. Augustine, forced the Seminoles onto a reservation in central Florida.
What is the Treaty of Moultrie Creek?
This 1846 treaty settled the Oregon boundary between the U.S. and Great Britain.
What is the Oregon Treaty?
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This group worked as miners during the Gold Rush but had to pay a special tax because they were not citizens.
Who are Chinese immigrants?