Historian Hustle – Westward Expansion

People traveling west in the 1800s followed two main routes the ________________________ and the _______________________________________.

• Oregon Trail

• Santa Fe Trail

• Gold Rush

• Manifest Destiny

Religious leader Joseph Smith founded the ____________________ in 1830. They moved out west because people did not accept their religious beliefs.

• Oregon Trail

• Sam Houston

• Mormons

• Wilmot Proviso

The belief that the United States should stretch from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean is known as _____________________________.

• Gold Rush

• Forty-Niners

• David (Davy) Crockett

• Manifest Destiny

__________________________________ was a well-known Congressman from Tennessee who went to fight in the Texas Revolution. He was one of the Texan rebels who was killed at the Alamo.

• Sam Houston

• James K. Polk

• David (Davy) Crockett

• Missouri Compromise

_______________ started out as Spanish territory. In the 1820s, U.S. citizens began settling there. Spain ended up losing a war with Mexico, and ________________ became part of Mexico.

• Texas

• Missouri Compromise

• Forty-Niners

• Mormons

In 1820 a compromise was made known as the ______________________ __________________. In this compromise Congress admitted Missouri as a slave state, Maine as a free state, and congress set a boundary across the west determining the free areas to the north and slave regions to the south.

• Mexican-American War

• Wilmot Proviso

• Abolitionist

• Missouri Compromise

____________________ believed that slavery should be outlawed especially in all new states entering the nation.

• James K. Polk

• Wilmot Proviso

• Abolitionist

• Forty-Niners

In 1836, U.S. General ___________________________________ led the Texas Army to victory at the Battle of San Jacinto where Texas won its independence from Mexico in an 18-minute battle.

• Sam Houston

• James K. Polk

• David (Davy) Crockett

• Manifest Destiny

In 1848, gold was found in California. By 1849, thousands of people known as ________________ were moving out west this is known as the __________________.

• Gold Rush

• Oregon Trail

• Missouri Compromise

• Forty-Niners

The ________________________________________ was proposed to congress to eliminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican War but never became a law.

• Mexican- American War

• Wilmot Proviso

• Santa Fe Trail

• Abolitionist