Manifest Destiny FAC

Front

Interactions between Native Americans and pioneers traveling west in the 1800s.

Back

Most encounters were friendly.

Front

What was one reason that Texans wanted independence from Mexico?

Back

Mexico had banned American settlement in Texas.

Front

Who were the forty-niners?

Back

gold-seekers who came to California in 1849

Front

What is the concept of manifest destiny?

Back

America should stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

Front

How did many women benefit from settling in boomtowns?

Back

Few laws prohibited women from owning property or businesses.

Front

What increased the pioneers' fear of Native American attacks?

Back

fiction about the West that exaggerated such accounts

Front

Who were most of fortune-seekers during the gold rush?

Back

single-men

Front

What did some New Englanders claim about the Mexican-American War?

Back

It was a scheme to expand slavery.

Front

Why did Spain prohibit the Tejanos from trading with the United States?

Back

Spain worried about U.S. influence on the Tejanos.

Front

During the 1840s, why did some pro-slavery southerners oppose annexation of new western territory?

Back

They worried that the new territories might ban slavery.