Vocabulary
This word means to add a territory or a country to another country. When one country adopts another and makes it their own.
What is to Annex?
The 2 explorers that led an expedition into the Louisiana Territory.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
This is the idea that the United States had permission from God and the responsibility to take over all of the territories of the west all the way to California and the pacific ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
What were the 4 original countries that held claim to the Oregon Territory and who were the last 2 left in the end?
The original 4 were Russia, Spain, Great Britain, and the U.S. The 2 left were Great Britain and the U.S.
Why did Mexico allow early settlers like Stephen F. Austin to settle in Texas territory. What was the reason?
Mexico wanted settlers to populate the territory and make Texas economically successful.
Someone who rules with absolute power and often harshly.
What is a Dictator?
He was the General of the Mexican army that lost Texas and California to the United States.
Who is General Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana?
What year was the Louisiana Territory bought and for how much?
It was bought in 1803 for 15 million dollars.
This President was the one to negotiate and get Oregon Territory for the United States.
James K. Polk
What was the name of the leader of the Texas army that defeated General Santa Ana?
Who is Sam Houston?
Anything that is heavenly or god like.
What is Divine?
He was the military General from France that sold us the Louisiana Territory.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
Who did the U.S. get Florida from and for how much?
We bought it from Spain for 5 million dollars.
What was the compromise that Great Britain and the U.S. made in the end about the Oregon Territory. What did the deal say?
It divided the Oregon Territory in half. Great Britain kept the upper half (Canada) and the U.S. kept the lower half.
What were the 3 conditions Mexico gave to settlers in Texas?
You must get all 3.
1. They must be hard working and moral people.
2. They must become Mexican citizens.
3. They had to join the catholic church.
When something that looks like a bad thing is done but with a good reason that makes it okay.
What is Justifiable?
This American president was in power during the time we annexed Texas and gained the Oregon Territory. He believed strongly in Manifest Destiny.
Who is James K. Polk?
Who hired Lewis and Clark to do the expedition into the newly purchased Louisiana Territory?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This trail was used by thousands of pioneers (settlers) to travel into Oregon. It took between 4 - 6 months to get to their destination.
What is the Oregon Trail?
What was the event that happened between Mexico and the United States that sparked the Mexican-American War?
Mexican troops firing on and killing American troops at the Rio Grande.
The art of conducting negotiations with other countries. What happens when representatives from different countries get together to make a deal.
What is Diplomacy?
This General went in to Florida and took it over causing a problem between the US and Spain.
General Andrew Jackson
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What were the 3 main reasons or goals for the "Corps of Discovery" expedition led by Lewis and Clark?
You must have them all!!!
1. To find a water way (river) to connect the main land to the pacific ocean for trade purposes.
2. To get to know the Indian tribes in the new territory to establish trade relationships.
3. To record the different soils, animals, weather, geography, and plants.
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Please list some of the dangers that pioneers faced on the Oregon Trail.
You must get at least 3 to get the points!
The dangers were...
Starvation, Drowning, Cholera, being run over by wagon wheels, animal attacks, bad weather, and possible Indian attacks.
What was the name of the "deal" or peace treaty that was signed by Mexico and the U.S.?
The treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo