Manifest destiny 1
The phrase coined by the journalist John O'Sullivan in 1845
What is Manifest destiny
Gave the US control of the Mississippi River, New Orleans and moved the French off the western border of the US
What was the 1803 Louisiana Purchase?
Name of the treaty that gave the US the Mexican Cession.
What was The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
year Jefferson bought Louisiana
What was 1803?
Santa Anna and his Mexican forces defeated Texan forces at the ______, a fort near San Antonio. Led to a great wave of anger against the Mexicans; Texan militia under Houston fought back with slogan "Remember the _______!"
What was the Alamo?
this is how Texas became a part of the US.
What is annexation?
Settled land disputes between the US and Canada along the Great Lakes.
What was the 1818 Convention Treaty?
acquiring territory in Arizona and New Mexico to build a southern railroad route across the country.
What was 1853 Gadsden Purchase?
lasted from 1846-1848, this was caused by Mexico firing on American troops along the Rio Grande. Mexico did not want to sell Polk California and New Mexico.
What was Mexican-American War?
general/dictator of Mexico, lead the Mexican War, defeated the Texans at The Alamo and was Captured at San Jacinto
What was Antonia Lopez de Santa Anna?
Florida was sold by this country to the US
What is Spain?
The other name for the Adams-Onis Treaty.
What is the Transcontinental Treaty or the Florida Treaty?
The route over which settlers traveled to Oregon in the 1840s and 1850s; trails branched off from it toward Utah and California.
What was Oregon Trail?
Lands from California to New Mexico, American gained in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848.
What was Mexican Cession?
Mexico opened land for American colonization in this future state
What was Texas?
(1803) was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million.
What is Louisiana Purchase?
Polk's campaign slogan regarding Oregon
What was 54 -40 or fight?
Name given to settlers who did not oppose slavery morally but the expansion of slavery into new territories.
What was free soilers?
Designed to settle the differences between slave and free states in Kansas, Nebraska, Utah and New Mexico
What was popular sovereignty?
The decade for manifest destiny
What was the 1840s or 50s?
Treaty that ended the American Revolutionary War and established the early U.S. boundaries1783
What is 1783 treaty of Paris?
Only state to declare war on a foreign country.
What was Maine? Aroostook war -- Webster-Ashburton Treaty?
Name given to land located North of Ohio River and east of Mississippi River
What was Northwest Territory?
known as the Manifest Destiny president
Who was James K. Polk?
Settled the arguments over the Mexican Cession
What was the Compromise of 1850?