Westward Expansion
What is the belief of expanding west called?
Manifest Destiny
What did people in Texas fight for?
Independence
What was discovered in California?
Gold
To make larger
What ocean did the US want to reach going from coast to coast?
The Pacific Ocean
What did people who believed in Manifest Destiny think was their job?
To spread Democracy and their culture
Who owned the areas of California and Texas before they became states?
Mexico
California was a free or slave state?
Free
Something true and obvious
Manifest
What can you never eat for breakfast?
Lunch and Dinner
What is Pan-Indian Resistance?
When Native Americans tried to resist the westward expansion of white people
Who was the dictator of Mexico?
Santa Anna
Where did the immigrants from the Pacific Ocean come from?
China
Something that is going to happen in the future
Destiny
Is the red light on a stop light at the top or the bottom of the stop light?
Top
The annexing of Texas happened after what war?
Mexican-American War
What was the big debate about new land in America?
Slaves
What were the people who rushed to find the gold called?
Forty-Niners
Saying that something belongs to you
Claim
Where was there a battle between Native Mexicans and white Texans?
The Alamo
What role did slave states and free states play in westward expansion?
Created debates and more conflict with the North and South about new states
What country did the US get Oregon from?
Great Britain
In what year did California ask for statehood?
1850
To take someone else's land
Annex
What river did the US claim to be the border of Mexico?
Rio Grande