What is the name given to the belief that the United States had the right and duty (some believed destiny) to expand to the Pacific?
Ch 11 Oregon, Texas and Florida

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Kristi Rutz Robbins
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1.
FLASHCARD QUESTION
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Manifest destiny
2.
FLASHCARD QUESTION
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What was the name of the trail people took to get to the Pacific Northwest in the mid 1800s?
Back
The Oregon Trail
3.
FLASHCARD QUESTION
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What countries initially claimed Oregon Territory?
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Spain, Britain, Russia and the US
4.
FLASHCARD QUESTION
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What were the fur trappers in the Rocky Mountains and Pacific Northwest who married Native Americans, trapped furs, and traded for a living, and were the first American settlers in the West called?
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mountain men
5.
FLASHCARD QUESTION
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The Oregon Treaty set the northern boundary of the Oregon Territory and settled a long standing American disagreement with which country?
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Britain
6.
FLASHCARD QUESTION
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What did Americans who supported the idea of Manifest Destiny believe?
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that God's purpose for the United States was the control the land all the way to the Pacific Ocean
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Where did new American settlers to Florida mostly come from after Spain transferred Florida to the US in 1821?
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southern states
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