Ch 11 Oregon, Texas and Florida

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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?

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Manifest destiny

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What was the name of the trail people took to get to the Pacific Northwest in the mid 1800s?

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The Oregon Trail

Front

What countries initially claimed Oregon Territory?

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Spain, Britain, Russia and the US

Front

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

Front

The Oregon Treaty set the northern boundary of the Oregon Territory and settled a long standing American disagreement with which country?

Back

Britain

Front

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

Front

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

Front

By 1837, what proportion of the population of Florida were enslaved persons?

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About half

Front

How was it agreed on in Congress that Florida could be admitted as a state?

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Congress agreed that the free state of Iowa would be added too.

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What did Mexico do that led Americans to move to the Texas region after gaining independence from Spain in 1821?

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offered free land to settlers to try to make the region profitable