Westward Expansion
The American belief that it is a right to expand USA to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The USA got Florida from this European country.
What is Spain?
The reason American Indians went onto the reservations.
What is "the US government forced them to move"?
The reason the USA wanted new acquisitions in the West.
What is "gave people more land to farm and live on"?
The reason many Americans in Texas wanted freedom from Mexico.
What is "to continue to enslave people"?
What is the transcontinental railroad?
The reason the forty-niners traveled west.
What is gold?
Things that cause people to leave their homes/communities/countries.
What are push factors?
The land miners worked is called this.
What is miner's claim?
The reason that some newcomers to the West learned skills to be cowboys.
What are Californios?
Reasons that draw people to a new place.
What are pull factors?
The reason Chief Joseph led the Nez Perce toward Canada.
What is "to be safe from U.S. soldiers"?