Ch 13 Westward Expansion

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The 19th-century belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.

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Manifest Destiny

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Uncharted territory or wilderness

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Frontier

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Founded the Mormon Church

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Joseph Smith

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the name for self-appointed law enforcers in the western areas where there was no formal law enforcement

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vigilantes

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Acquisition of a territory by the United States from France in 1803. Doubled the size of the U.S.

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Louisiana Purchase

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Treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that ceded Florida to the U.S. and defined the boundary between the U.S. and New Spain.

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Adams Onis Treaty

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To give up power of a territory

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Cede

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The discovery of gold in the California territory leads to a massive immigration of settlers onto the land to get rich quick.

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Gold Rush

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The name given to the group of pioneers who went to California during the Gold Rush

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Forty Niners

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Immigrated to the West during the Gold Rush, faced discrimination by the white settlers

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