Chapter 13 - Manifest Destiny

Which statement best defines the term "Manifest Destiny?"

• the idea that America should be free & independent

• the idea that the United States should include Canada & Mexico

• the idea that the United States has been chosen to should spread its culture & values across the continent

• the idea that the free and slave states should be permanently separated

Besides the United States, which country DID NOT claim the Oregon Country in the early 1800s?

• Spain

• France

• Russia

• Britain

Name the treaty that set the boundary between California's northern border and all claims to Oregon>

• Jay's Treaty

• Treaty of Paris

• Pinckney's Treaty

• Adams-Onis Treaty

These were tough, independent Americans who blazed fur trapping trails through the Rocky Mountains which later became pioneer trails

• Patriot Men

• Red Coat Men

• Mountain Men

• Militia Men

A successful fur trapper, he discovered the South Pass through the Rocky Mountains & was the first American in Oregon and California.

• Joseph Smith

• Jedediah Smith

• John Smith

• Jeremiah Smith

The 2000 mile pioneer trail that led to the Pacific Northwest was the

• Santa Fe Trail

• Mormon Trail

• Old Spanish Trail

• Oregon Trail

Among the first American settlers in the Oregon Country were these Protestant missionaries:

• Marquette & Joliet

• Marylyn & Herbert Welsh

• Marcus & Narcissa Whitman

• Mumfred & Alberta Simmons

in the 1840s & 50s, tens of thousands of pioneers made their way west in these:

• Prairie Tobogans

• Prairie Schooners

• Stage Coaches

• Railroads cars

"Fifty-Four Forty or Fight" refers to:

• the south's request to lower the tariffs

• the area to place the Oklahoma Indian Reservations

• the line of latitude James K. Polk & Democrats believed should be the nation's northern border in Oregon

• the line of latitude to separate slave states & free states

Which of the following were reasons settlers moved west? Choose all that apply:

• opportunity to own farms

• to begin a new country

• to escape the law & begin a new life

• for religious reasons