Topic 4: The Age of Jackson and Westward Expansion Final Exam

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Trail of Tears

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The forced migration by the Cherokee and other Native American groups from their southeastern homelands to territories west of the Mississippi River.

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Junípero Serra

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A Spanish friar and missionary who founded a chain of missions in present-day California from 1769 to 1782.

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forty-niners

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people who joined the California Gold Rush in 1849

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vaquero

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a Spanish or Mexican cowhand

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Manifest Destiny

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belief that Americans had the right to spread to the Pacific

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Erie Canal

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artificial waterway linking a Great Lake to the Hudson River

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Oregon Trail

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the route to the Oregon Country in the 1800s

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Alamo

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is a historic Spanish mission and fortress compound founded in the 18th century by Roman Catholic missionaries in what is now San Antonio, Texas

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mountain men

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trappers who explored in the West in the early 1800s