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Westward Expansion
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100

Belief the United States was destined by God to expand to the Pacific Ocean.

What is Manifest Destiny?

100

Lands that native peoples were forcibly relocated to after signing treaties with the United States.

What are Reservations.

100

Battle in which Mexican forces defeated American forces in Texas on March 6, 1836 at an old mission.

What is the Battle of the Alamo?

100
This U.S. President oversaw the westward expansion of the United States into Oregon, Texas, and California in the 1840s.

Who is President James Polk?

200

The land in the northwest United States once joint occupied by both Britain and the United States.

What is the Oregon Country?

200

90% of native populations in the Oregon Country died due to normal contact with this.

What are Diseases?

200

This controversial issue postponed Texas' admission to the Union until 1845.

What is Slavery?

200

The mistreatment of these people at the California missions of the 18th and 19th centuries has created uneasy relations with the Catholic Church.

Who are the Native Americans?

300

Route taken by pioneers and settlers as they traveled westward to the Pacific Ocean.

What is the Oregon Trail?
300

These two animals were very important to the native peoples of the Oregon Country.

What are horses and salmon?

300
This Franciscan friar founded many missions on the coast of California that became large cities.
Who is Saint Junipero Serra?
300
This economic event in the United States was a main reason that people emigrated westward.

What is the Panic of 1837?

400

Spain ceded this land in 1821 and it became a U.S. state in 1845.

What is Florida?

400

Environmental method used by Native Americans to maintain the nutrition and health of a large grassland.

What is Controlled Burning?

400

This Mexican state went through the Bear Flag revolt and declared independence in 1846.

What is California?

400

Native Americans were relocated to this type of land that purposely was not suitable for this type of development.

What is Farming?

500

These adventurers made a living by trading furs with the native peoples of the Rocky Mountains.

Who are the Mountain Men?
500

Phrase used by progressive activists to label the United States due to its history of taking native lands unjustly.

What is "Stolen Country"

500

This treaty signed by the United States and Mexico gave half of Mexico back to the Mexican government and drew the national boundary at the Rio Grande River.

What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

500

These two large reservations were made in the Oregon Territory through treaties signed i n1855.

What are the Walla Walla and Warm Springs Reservations?