Manifest Destiny Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
Oregon trail | the route across the vast central plains and the rocky Mountains was called the |
Adams-onis treaty | agreement that stated that florda would now belong to the United States was called |
Annex | To add a piece of territory |
Santa Fe trail | the route that led to areas in New Mexico and the southwest was called the |
California gold rush | An event that spurred the ideas of boomtowns and ghost towns was called the |
Ghost town | a town that was left empty after the gold craze passwd was called the |
Mountain Men | The people that adopted native americans ways and lifestyles and traded furs |
Manifest Destiny | Obvious or undeniable fate: America's reason to move west |
Boomtown | A town that became important because of the discovery of gold was called a |
54*40 | Line of latitude: campaign point for the election of 1844 |
Texas war for independence | Sam Houston Stephen Austin and Santa are all important people in.... |
Treaty of Guadalupe hidalgo | The _________ ended the war between Mexico and America and set the border at the rio Grande for Texas. |
Battle of the alamo | The ______________ lasted 13 days and saw the death of 180 out of 200 Americans |
Wilmot Prouisio | The _______________ created a conflict over the idea of slavery and widened the gap between north and south. |
$30 million | how much money did james Polk offer to Mexico to buy off the land |
49ers | people traveling west looking for gold were nicknamed |
Joseph Smith | who was the founder of the Mormon church |
John O' sullivan | In 1840, New york newspaper editor is |
Free slave state or not free state | what was the problem that came with the addition of new land into the US |
Rio Grande and Nueces River | What to rivers were involved in the border dispute |
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