Moving West
The belief that God wanted the United States to own all of North America.
What is Manifest Destiny
The fortified former mission in San Antonio that was the site of the defeat and slaughter of Texans by Mexican troops in 1836
What is the Alamo
A mass migration that had 80,000 fortune seekers headed for California in 1849 in search of easy riches
What is the California Gold Rush
A religious revival movement in the first half of the 1800s
What is the Second Great Awakening
Activists led this movement that wanted to end slavery
What is the abolition movement
A trail that starts from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon that was used by Pioneers
What is the Oregon Trail
This nation was formed in 1835 by Texans who declared independence from Mexico
What is the Lone Star Republic
A miner who went to California after the discovery of gold in 1848.
What is a forty-niner
Due to Crime, sickness, poverty, neglected families, and alcohol abuse it launched this movement
What is the Temperance Movement
This person was a former slave, well known abolitionist, and arguably the most eloquent
Who is Frederick Douglass
A religious leader who led a massive pioneer movement to New Zion in 1847
Who is Brigham Young
This person was a ruthless general who seized power in Mexico City in 1834
Who is Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
The law that would ban slavery in any lands won from Mexico
What is the Wilmot Proviso
During the 1800s groups of these American communities sought to improve their lives by distancing themselves from society, and sharing property, labor, and family life
What is Utopian Communities
A law that prohibited debate and discussion in Congress on the subject of slavery
What is the Gag Rule
Welcomed by Mexican officials, traders launched this growing commerce trail in the mid-1800s, Americans and Mexicans traded on this trail.
What is the Santa Fe Trail
This person was the commander of the Texan army, president of the Republic of Texas, and U.S. senator from Texas
Who is Sam Houston
This treaty ended the Mexican-American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
This man was a former Unitarian minister, and the leading Transcendentalist
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson
This man was a printer, who lived in Boston and became one of the leading abolitionists
Who is William Lloyd Garrison
A treaty that bound the American Indians to territories away from the major trails
What is the Treaty of Fort Laramie
This person was the 11th president and led the United States through the Mexican-American War.
Who is James K. Polk
The U.S. bought this land of from Mexico in 1853 and is 29,640 square miles
What is the Gadsen Purchase
This person was one of the most influential revivalist and former attornery
Who is Charles Grandison Finney
A slave who taught himself to read the Bible, and believed that he had received a sign from God instructing him to lead his people to freedom
Who is Nat Turner