Manifest Destiny & Expansion
This belief said the U.S. was meant to expand westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This U.S. act forced Native peoples off their land.
What is Indian Removal Act?
Cotton farming grew fast and increased demand for this labor system.
What is slavery?
This war led to the U.S. gaining lands like California and Arizona.
What is the Mexican-American War?
The movement to end slavery was called this.
What is abolition?
This 1803 land deal doubled U.S. territory.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The forced Cherokee march west is known as this.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This invention sped up cotton processing dramatically.
What is the cotton gin?
This state joined the U.S. after being an independent republic for almost 10 years.
What is Texas?
The movement for voting rights is called this.
What is suffrage?
This expedition explored the Louisiana Purchase to learn about land, plants, and routes.
What is the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
Plains tribes depended on this animal for food, clothing, and shelter.
What is the buffalo?
This railroad connected the U.S. from east to west by train.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This 1862 law offered free western land to settlers who lived on and farmed it.
What is the Homestead Act?
This 1848 meeting launched the women’s rights movement in the U.S.
What is Seneca Falls Convention?
Adding a territory by agreement – like Texas joining the U.S. – is called this.
What is annexation?
Westward expansion harmed Native Americans mainly by taking this.
What is their land?
New machines and transportation caused more people to do this.
What is migrate west?
This 1849 event caused a massive rush of settlers to California.
What is the Gold Rush?
This document from Seneca Falls argued women deserved equal rights.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
A U.S. goal in the Louisiana Purchase was to secure control of this major river.
What is the Mississippi River?
This Native leader tried to unite tribes to resist U.S. expansion.
Who is Tecumseh?
This New York canal helped connect the Great Lakes to the Atlantic, boosting trade.
What is the Erie Canal?
Land gained from Mexico after the war is called this.
What is the Mexican Cession?
The constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote is this.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This slogan demanded the U.S. claim all of Oregon Territory up to a specific latitude line.
What is “Fifty-four forty or fight!”?
This was Andrew Jackson’s main goal in removing Native Americans from the Southeast. (Hint: What were they doing with the land?)
What is land for plantations?
This is the big connection between canals/railroads and westward expansion.
What is faster movement of goods/people?
The annexation of Texas and the Mexican Cession were both efforts to do this.
What is fulfill Manifest Destiny?
The Declaration of Sentiments was significant because it argued for this.
What is equal rights for women?
This is the main reason the Lewis and Clark expedition mattered to the U.S. government.
What is exploring the Louisiana Purchase?
In the late 1800s, the federal government often forced Native Americans to live in these places with set boundaries.
What are reservations?
These four developments all helped settlement grow: steel plow, cotton gin, railroads, and this 1862 law.
What is the Homestead Act?
This was a major reason some Americans warned the Mexican-American War could lead to bigger conflict inside the U.S.
What is slavery debate or sectional conflict?
This movement was closely connected to women’s rights because many reformers worked in both causes.
What is abolition?