Manifest Destiny
Belief that the United States had a God-given right to extend its borders to the Pacific Ocean
Manifest Destiny
What were the conditions of the Fugitive Slave Act
Slaves were returned to their owners
a roughly 2,000-mile route from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon City, Oregon, that was used by hundreds of thousands of American pioneers in the mid-1800s to emigrate west.
Oregon Trail
Name 3 forms of transportation discussed in class
Canals, railroads, steam engine,
This treaty, signed on February 2, 1848, ended the war between the United States and Mexico.
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Spain ceded East and West Florida to the United States
Adams-Onis Treaty of 1818
The Fugitive Slave Act banned slave auctions in what location
Washington DC
mainly a trade route but saw its share of emigrants, especially during the California Gold Rush and the Pike's Peak Gold Rush in Colorado. The trail also became an important route for stagecoach travel, stagecoach mail delivery and as a mail route for the famed Pony Express
Santa Fe Trail
provided 160 acres of federal land to anyone who agreed to farm the land. The act distributed millions of acres of western land to individual settlers.
Homestead Act
the purchase of a small portion of land in Arizona and New Mexico
Gadsden Purchase
a United States foreign policy position that opposes European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere.
Monroe Doctrine
Name the state that was admitted as a slave state in the conditions of the Compromise of 1850
Texas
American Mormons took when they moved to Utah. They were fleeing their place in Illinois because other people were hunting them. Brigham Young proposed the trail and said it would be 1,300 miles long. He told them to walk for two months and create 'winter quarters'.
Mormon Trail
Who did we purchase the Louisiana Purchase and what year was it purchased
The French and 1803
Which major railroad did the United States want to build through the West
Transcontinental Railroad
Established Indian Territory and forced Native American Tribes to move
Indian Removal Act
Name the state that was admitted as a free state
California
Nat Turner was responsible for what
Leading a rebellion against slaveowners
stretched from the Pacific coast to the Rocky Mountains, encompassing the area including present-day Oregon, Washington, and most of British Columbia. Originally Spain, Great Britain, Russia, and the United States claimed the territory.
Oregon Territory
Name at least three states that the United States gained from the Mexican-American War
California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, most of Arizona and Colorado, and parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Wyoming.
In the 1830s the United States government forcibly removed the southeastern Native Americans from their homelands and relocated them on lands in Indian Territory
Trail of Tears
Henry Clay
Explain Bleeding Kansas
John Brown led a rebellion against slavery leading to the deaths of 200
President elected in 1845 and supported the belief of Manifest Destiny
James K. Polk
Sam Houston