Manifest Destiny & Expansion
This belief said the U.S. was meant to stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This trail was used by pioneers heading west to settle farmland.
What is the Oregon Trail?
This law, enforced by Andrew Jackson, forced many Native Americans to relocate westward.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
People rushed to this state after gold was discovered in 1848.
What is California?
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This canal linked the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Coast.
What is the Erie Canal?
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This 1803 purchase doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
These explorers traveled through the Louisiana Territory to the Pacific Ocean.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
This tragic journey forced the Cherokee westward.
What is the Trail of Tears?
These people became known as “forty-niners.”
Who were California Gold Rush miners/settlers?
Settlers crossing west often had to travel over this mountain range.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
This treaty gave the U.S. a strip of land that completed expansion across the continent.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
This Native American woman helped guide Lewis and Clark.
Who is Sacagawea?
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After removal policies, the Cherokee tried protecting their land through this branch of government.
What is the Judicial Branch?
(Specifically: Supreme Court)
This act gave settlers free or cheap western land. (160 acres)
What is the Homestead Act?
The eastern border of the Louisiana Territory was this river.
What is the Mississippi River?
This president sent troops to the Rio Grande, helping spark the Mexican-American War.
Who is James K. Polk?
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Mormon settlers moved to this location for religious freedom.
What is Salt Lake, Utah?
This president supported the forced relocation of Native Americans.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
The Homestead Act encouraged this major trend in American history.
Hint: Movement
What is Westward Expansion or Settlement?
The western border of the Louisiana Territory was this mountain range.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
This agreement ended the Mexican-American War and gave the U.S. a huge amount of western land.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Name two hardships faced by travelers on the Oregon Trail.
What is disease, weather, mud, loss of oxen, or starvation?
During the Trail of Tears, many Cherokee died from these two hardships.
What are exhaustion, starvation, exposure to weather, exposure to disease, etc.
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Besides Americans, many people from other countries moved west during the rush to get rich. What was this event called?
What is the California Gold Rush?
Governor DeWitt Clinton believed this transportation project would unite the country and increase trade.
What is the Erie Canal?