Westward Expansion 1
Population growth and immigration
What are reasons for westward expansion?
Manifest Destiny
What is the belief that the U.S. should stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific?
Adams-Onis Treaty
How the U.S. acquired Florida
Secured the southern route for the Transcontinental Railroad
What was the Gadsen Purchase
African Americans who moved West
Who were the Exodusters
Ireland and Germany
What countries did the immigrants come from?
John O'Sullivan
Who came up with the phrase of Manifest Destiny?
Annexation
How was Texas acquired
President who signed Homestead Act
Who was Abraham Lincoln
Turner Frontier Thesis
Idea that the frontier shaped American democracy, individualism, and identity
A nation of independent land owning farmers
What was the Jeffersonian ideal?
American Exceptionalism
What is the belief that American values and institutions were superior?
Mexican American War
What conflict followed Texas Annexation
Government program that gave land in the west to Americans if they settled the land
What was the Homestead Act
Dawes Act
Law that broke up tribal lands into individual plots to force assimilation
Gold
Inevetiablity
What was the idea that the expansion of the United States was unavoidable
49th Parallel
Boundary that settled the Oregon Dispute
160 acres
The amount of land given in the Homestead Act
Population growth, immigration and opportunity
Reasons why Americans moved west
Transcontinental Railroad
What railroad connected the east to west?
Louisiana Purchase
What purchased doubled the size of the United States
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidlago
The treaty that ended Mexican-American War
Live on, improve, and farm for 5 years
Conditions under the Homestead Act
Manifest Destiny
Belief that the U.S. should stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific