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Western Frontier
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Manifest Destiny | the 19th-century belief that it was the United States' destiny to expand westward to the Pacific and into Mexican territory |
| Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868) | treaty requiring the Sioux to live on a reservation along the Missouri River |
| Santa Fe Trail | route from Missouri to New Mexico, used by traders in the early and mid 1800s |
| Oregon Trail | route from Missouri to Oregon, used by pioneers to travel to the Oregon territory |
| Mormons | religion begun in New York City and was led west to Utah by Brigham Young |
| Texas Revolution (1836) | 1836 rebellion in which Texas gained its independence from Mexico |
| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) | treaty ending the Mexican-American war, in which Mexico ceded California and New Mexico to the U.S. |
| Oregon Treaty (1846) | agreement with Britain that established demarcation line between the United States and Canada along the 49th parallel |
| Alamo | mission and fort in San Antonio, Texas, where Mexican forces massacred rebellious Texans in 1836 |
| Sam Houston | lawyer, politician, and soldier, who led U.S. forces into a fight to secure Texas against Mexico |
| Republic of California | nation proclaimed by American settlers in California when they declared independence from Mexico in 1846 |
| Gadsden Purchase (1853) | American purchase of land from Mexico, establishing the present-day American-Mexican border |
| forty-niners | people who migrated to California in search of riches after gold was discovered there in 1848 |
| Homestead Act (1862) | act that offered 160 acres of land to any farmer who could clear and farm the land in the West |
| Nez Pearce | tribe that held lucrative trade agreements with the U.S. that began to break down in the 1860s, not wanting to be forced off their land in the Pacific Northwest |
| Sitting Bull | Native leader that advocated that his people wanted to preserve their culture, political power, and ancestral land |
| Great Plains | vast grassland that extends through the central portion of North America, east of the Rocky Mountains |
| George A. Custer | American army officer dispatched to the West to fight Natives and was killed in the Battle of Little Bighorn |
| Dawes Act (1887) | law intended to Americanize Natives by distributing reservation land to individual owners |
| Battle of Wounded Knee (1890) | massacre by U.S. soldiers of 300 unarmed Native Americans |
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