Manifest destiny 1
This is the belief the the U.S. should expand to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest destiny?
This best explains many Americans were willing to move westward?
What is the desire for new lands?
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 there was a culture clash between Americans and the Mexican government.
What is obeying Mexican law and converting to the Roman Catholic faith?
this is how Texas became a part of the US.
What is annexation?
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?
They also had to cook, clean, and care for children on the journey west.
Who were the pioneer women?
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?
Why did President Polk send troops to the border of Mexico?
to provoke war with Mexico
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?
Polk's campaign slogan regarding Oregon
What was 54 -40 or fight?
Forced march of Native Americans from the southeastern US to the West
What is the Trail of Tears?
The US wanted this territory in order to stop raids by Native Americans.
What is Florida?
Who was William Becknell?
the first American trader to reach Santa Fe and the route he used was named Santa Fe Trail
Went west to escape religious persecution.
Who are the Mormons?
The year Texas joined the United States
What is 1845?
The compromise that allowed Florida to become a state?
What is Iowa entered the Union as a Free state.
The president most closely associated with Manifest Destiny
Who is President Polk?
Who were Tejanos?
Mexicans who claimed Texas as their home.