America's Beginnings 1800-1850

The North American territory purchased by the United States from France in 1803.

• Missouri Purchase

• Mississippi Purchase

• Louisiana Purchase

• Texas Purchase

What was not a goal of Lewis and Clark's travels through the newly acquired Louisiana land.

• Find a river connecting the western and eastern coast

• Collect scientific studies

• Eliminate Native American tribes

• Document native culture

A policy of U.S. opposition to any European interference in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere; also proclaimed the U.S. will not involve itself in European affairs

• Impressment

• Jefferson Doctrine

• American System

• Monroe Doctrine

800 miles of traveling for Cherokee Indians that were rounded up and driven into camps. 25% of the population dies

• Missouri Compromise

• Trail of Tears

• Oregon Trial

• The Long Walk

Belief that America was destined to expand to the Pacific Ocean

• American Dream

• Manifest Destiny

• God's Plan

• Indian Removal Act

Who traveled the Utah Trail?

• Empresarios

• Missionaries

• Mormons

• Farmers

Successful empresario who founded the Texas region on Mexican land

• Sam Houston

• Antonio Lopez Santa Ana

• Andrew Jackson

• Stephan F. Austin

189 “Texan” troops and 4000 Mexican troops fought at this old Spanish mission; President Santa Ana took no prisoners after claiming the victory.

• San Antonio

• Alamo

• San Juan

• Rio Grande

Texas wanted to join the Union as a(n) .

• Free State

• Independent State

• Slave State

• Lone State

The 1848 treaty the ended war with U.S. and Mexico

• Treaty of Versailles

• Treaty of Ghent

• Treaty of Tordesillas

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo