Manifest Destiny Vocab

Manifest Destiny is?

• America's right to expand west

• Make American Great Again

• America's right to conquer the world

• America should not expand

What is the Alamo?

• an event during the Texas Revolution

• Mexican soldiers captured the Alamo missionary and killed all the Texans

• a building

• somewhere in Texas

Define Sectionalism

• a type of couch

• separating things into groups

• loyalty to a section or group, instead of a whole

What are Exodusters?

• a type of bug with an exoskeleton

• African Americans who moved from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late 1800's.

• someone who moved west

• Manifest Destiny
• American Revolution
• territory
• caravans

heavenly or godlike

• divine
• annex
• diplomat
• great experiment

done for a good reason

• justifiable
• innocent
• self-defense
• diplomacy

What was the Gold Rush?

• people moving out of California to find gold

• a race to find gold

• gold was found in California and led to large amounts of people moving there to seek their fortune

• free jewelry

Who were the 49ers

• prospectors (people seeking to make a fortune) who moved west in 1849

• miners who made $49 dollars a day

• people who moved west in 1749

• people who found 49 pounds of gold

What was the Homestead Act?

• free passage out west to start a new life

• any US citizen could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land

• any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S. government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land

• Free land with no requirements