Lewis and Clark
The Native American woman who accompanied Lewis and Clark on their journey.
Who is Sacagawea?
The kind of state Missouri was eventually admitted as
What is a slave state?
This term describes the belief that the United States was destined to expand westward
What is Manifest Destiny?
What is Mexico?
One major reason Mexico opposed Texas annexation was that Texas allowed this institution
What is slavery?
The name of the group Lewis and Clark put together to explore the territory.
What is the Corps of Discovery?
The eventual agreement
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Who the expansionists believed was guiding them to the new land.
Who was God?
Texas voted to join this country in 1836, but annexation was delayed
What is the United States?
The two states that the US tried to purchase from Mexico
What is New Mexico and California?
Where the group prepared for the Journey in the winter of 1803-1804.
What is the Missouri River?
The term for a divide between the North and the South
What is Sectionalism?
Westward Expansion increased this national debate
What is slavery?
Spain and Mexico required American settlers to convert to this religion
What is Roman Catholicism?
This proposal tried to ban slavery in any land gained from Mexico.
What is the Wilmont Proviso?
The goal of the Journey
What is to find the Northwest Passage?
He began the debate over the morality of slavery.
Who is James Tallmadge?
This group was most negatively affected by westward expansion
Who are Native Americans?
The Battle of San Jacinto lasted about this long
What is 15 minutes?
This 1848 treaty officially ended the Mexican-American War
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
The kind of trade that many countries wanted control of.
What is fur trade?
The part of the government that would become unbalanced from Missouri's statehood
What is the Senate?
This president believed the US should expand and led the Nation into War with Mexico
Who is James K Polk?
This was the reason Mexico refused to recognize Texas independence after the Battle of San Jacinto.
What is Santa Anna was no longer president and therefore lacked the authority to make the agreement?
OR
What is Santa Anna signed the treaty under the threat of execution?
The amount of land Mexico lost to the United States
What is 1 million square miles of land?