Manifest Destiny Flashcard

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Americans who favored territorial growth

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Expansionist

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Belief that God wanted the United States to own all of North America

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Manifest Destiny

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Trail from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon that was used by pioneers in the mid-1800s

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Oregon Trail

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Leader of American emigrants who settled in Austin, Texas

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Stephen Austin

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Texas garrison where Santa Anna executed all the defenders following the battle in 1836

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Alamo

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Texas army commander, President, territorial governor and later senator

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Sam Houston

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Southern Democrat and expansionist elected President in 1844

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James K. Polk

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General who led troops at the borderland between Mexico and the US in 1846

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Zachary Taylor

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1848 agreement formally ending the Mexican-American War, included the sale of Mexican territory to the United States

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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

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1853 sale of Mexican territory in Arizona and New Mexico to the United States

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Gadsden Purchase