Jackson & Trail of Tears
Growth Expansion Map
Texan & Mexican-American War
Settling Oregon & Oregon Trail
Settling CA & UT
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President Jackson approved the Indian Removal Act so land could be used by the American farmers. Choctaw, Creek, Seminole, and Cherokee tribes were forced to move to Indian Territory (Oklahoma).
5. Who forced the removal and why? Who was forced to move? Where did they go? (state)
100
What land is represented by number 3?
Mexican Cession
100
Texans, led by Sam Houston, fought for and won independence from Mexico in 1835.
7. How did Texas earn independence? From what country? Who led the Texans?
100
2,000 miles and 5-6 months
15. How long was the Oregon Trail and how long did it take to travel it?
100
Mormons were a religious group that was persecuted (punished) for their beliefs. They moved to Utah (they called it Deseret) and learned to farm successfully.
17. Who were the Mormons? Why did they decide to move West? Where did they settle?
200
Military hero: served in the War of 1812 (also served in the American Revolution
Self-made man: poor farmer (log cabin) to president (not a “founding father”)
2. Which characteristics did people admire about Andrew Jackson?
200
What land is represented by number 1?
Oregon Country
200
An emigrant leaves one country for another.
11. Define an emigrant:
200
Manifest Destiny is the belief that the U.S. should own all the land from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
12. Define Manifest Destiny:
200
Who is this?
Paul Bunyan
300
Jackson had the support of farmers and slave owners living in the South and West.
1. Who (group of people and sections) typically supported Andrew Jackson’s presidency?
300
What land is represented by number 5?
Gadsden Purchase
300
The Trail of Tears was the forced movement of 18,000 Cherokee to Indian Territory (800 miles). One-fourth of the Native Americans died of diseases, starvation, and exposure to extreme hot/cold.
6. Describe the Trail of Tears.
300
People were moving to Oregon for the land. Conditions were difficult: long days walking in the hot or cold weather, accidents, diseases, and losses (people and wagons/supplies).
14. Why were people moving to Oregon? What were conditions like on the Oregon Trail?
300
Gold was discovered in California in 1848. The nickname was “forty-niners” for the year the people arrived. They settled in boomtowns. Very few people actually found gold.
16. Why were settlers moving to California in the late 1800s? What was their nickname? Where did they live?
400
Indian Removal Act moved Native Americans east of the Mississippi River to the Indian Territory i n 1830.
4. What was the purpose of the Indian Removal Act?
400
What land is represented by number 2?
Louisiana Purchase
400
When Texas entered the U.S. in 1845, there was a dispute over the southern border. The U.S. won, the Rio Grande River was the border, and the U.S. gained the Mexican Cession (land west of Texas to the Pacific Ocean).
9. What caused the war between the United States and Mexico in 1845? How did it end? What was the new boundary?
400
Mountain men were trappers (hunted beavers) in the Rocky Mountains. They lived like Native Americans they traded with. They later became farmers and guides to people moving West.
10. Who were the mountain men? Where did they live? How did they make their living and survive? What role did they have in the settlement of Oregon?
400
Who is this?
Johnny Appleseed (Chapman)
500
Giving government jobs to political supporters.
3. Explain the spoils system.
500
What land is represented by number 4?
Texas Annexation
500
TRUE or FALSE Texas entered the Union as a state immediately after their war for independence.
8. FALSE
500
49 ° N
13. What latitude line was the border between the United States and Britain (Canada)?
500
Who does the woman in the center of the painting represent?
the United States