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Manifest Destiny
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Westward
100
A government gift of land.
What is a land grant?
100
The idea that the United States was destined to grow from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
What is Manifest Destiny?
100
An attack in which one force surrounds a city or fort.
What is a siege?
100

It was decided Missouri entered as a slave state and Maine entered as a free state and all states North of the 36th parallel were free states and all South were slave states.

What is the Compromise of 1820?

100
The land beyond the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains.
What is the frontier?
200

Extending the nation beyond its existing borders.

What is expansion?

200
To give up something, such as land.
What is cede?
200
The trail that led many pioneers West.
What is The Oregon Trail?
200

A series of violent fights between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces in Kansas who had moved to Kansas to try to influence the decision of whether or not Kansas would a slave state or a free state.

What is Bleeding Kansas?

200

Percentage of Californians who were of Mexican descent in 1850.

What is 15%?

300
The practice of having more than one wife at one time.
What is polygamy?
300
To add on something, such as a state.
What is annex?
300
More than 80,000 people traveled to this state during the gold rush in 1849.
What is California?
300

A law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery.

What is Kansas-Nebraska Act?

300

This group of immigrants faced discrimination when they came to California. 

Who were the Chinese?

400
A self-appointed law enforcer.
What is a vigilante?
400
In the 1800's, this country owned much of the land in the West.
What is Spain?
400
During the gold rush, this population of people fell from about 150,000 to 50,000.
What is the Native American population?
400

The line created by the Missouri Compromise; lands north were free while south were slave states.

What is the 36 30?

400
The founder of the Mormon church.
Who is Joseph Smith?
500
Manifest destiny means the __________ of the United States.
What is expansion?
500
The United States received Washington, Oregon, and Idaho in a treaty from this country.
What is Britain?
500
The Mormons moved to this state in search of religious freedom.
What is Utah?
500

Mormon leader who moved his followers to Utah to practice their religion in peace

Who is Brigham Young?

500
A person who journeyed to California seeking Gold.
What is a forty-niner?