Reached a River
Belief U.S. was meant to expand coast to coast. The phrase was coined by the journalist John O'Sullivan in 1845
What is Manifest Destiny
A person who is among the first to settle in a new area
What is a pioneer?
Name of the treaty that gave the US the Mexican Cession.
What was The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This was meant to protect farmers' access to the Mississippi River and Port of New Orleans
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
The reason many Chinese immigrants went to California.
What was the gold rush?
What belief about culture supported Manifest Destiny?
American superiority / white supremacy
A state joining the United States
What is annexation?
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?
What event caused rapid population growth in California?
Gold Rush
Florida was sold by this country to the US
What is Spain?
A state leaving the United States
What is secession?
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?
Differences between regions (North vs South)
What was sectionalism?
Forced march of Native Americans from the southeastern US to the West
What is the Trail of Tears?
Why did compromises become less effective over time?
Tensions over slavery kept increasing
The name given to California gold miners
What are 49'ers?
Went west to escape religious persecution.
Who are the Mormons?
The year Texas joined the United States
What is 1845?
Name one part of the Compromise of 1850.
California free state, stronger Fugitive Slave Law, etc.
The president most closely associated with Manifest Destiny
Who is President Polk?
The decade Manifest Destiny took place
What 1840-1850?