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The acquisition by the United States of America in 1803 of 828,000 square miles of France's claim to the territory of Louisiana. | Louisiana Purchase |
Interpreter and guide for Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on their journey to explore the Louisiana purchase. | Sacajawea |
The belief widely held by Americans in the 19th century that the United States was destined to expand across the continent. | Manifest Destiny |
The agreement between the US and several native American tribes that granted the tribes 50 thousand dollars for 50 years for safe passage on the Oregon Trail and the ability to build forts and settlements on their land. | Treaty of Fort Laramie |
The 19th-century transportation route through central North America that connected Franklin, Missouri with Santa Fe, New Mexico. | Santa Fe Trail |
The historic east-west wagon route and emigrant trail that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon and locations in between. | Oregon Trail |
A religious and cultural group related to the principal branch of the Latter Day Saint movement, which began with the visions of Joseph Smith in upstate New York during the 1820s. | Mormons |
The American religious leader who founded the Latter Day Saint movement, whose predominant branch is Mormonism. | Joseph Smith |
The American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement who was the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints from 1847 until his death in 1877. He founded Salt Lake City | Brigham Young |
The military conflict between the government of Mexico and Texas colonists that began October 2, 1835 and resulted in the establishment of the Republic of Texas after the final battle on April 21, 1836. | Texas Revolution |
An independent sovereign state in North America which, after gaining independence from Mexico in 1836, claimed borders that included all of the present US state of Texas as well as parts of present-day Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, and New Mexico | Republic of Texas |
The lawful incorporation of one territory into another geo-political entity. | Annex |