Vocab 4

A term for the attitude in the 19th century that the United States not only could, but was destined to, stretch from coast to coast.

• Manifest Destiny

• Expansion

• Annexation

• Diplomacy

The art and practice of conducting negotiations between nations without provoking hostility.

• Sovereignty

• Federalism

• Expansion

• Diplomacy

In 1836, Americans in Texas revolted and fought a war of independence against Mexico. In 1845, the United States annexed this area and admitted it as a state.

• Mexican Cession

• Oregon Country

• Indian Removal

• Texas Annexation

The act of becoming larger or more extensive.

• Expansion

• Diplomacy

• Manifest Destiny

• Annexation

Signed into law in 1830 by President Andrew Jackson, it called for the resettlement of Native Americans from east of the Mississippi River to lands west (Indian Territory).

• Trail of Tears

• Indian Removal

• Gadsden Purchase

• Mexican Cession

A member of the indigenous group of people from the American continent.

• Immigrant

• Alien

• Native American

Land surrendered by Mexico after the Mexican War (1846-48). Under this treaty the U.S. paid Mexico $15 million for the land. Contains modern states of: California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah and parts of Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico.

• Mexican Cession

• Texas Annexation

• Gadsden Purchase

• Oregon Country

In 1846 the United States signed a treaty with Britain to split this disputed territory. The U.S. gained modern states Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and parts of Montana and Wyoming.

• Manifest Destiny

• Oregon Country

• Texas Annexation

• Mexican Cession

In 1853 the United States purchased this land from Mexico. Railroad companies wanted the land to build a southern railroad that did not cross high mountains.

• Texas Annexation

• Mexican Cession

• Oregon Country

• Gadsden Purchase

The route along which the US government forced several tribes of Native Americans to migrate to reservations west of the Mississippi River in the 1820s, 1830s, and 1840s.

• Indian Removal

• Texas Annexation

• Trail of Tears

• Mexican Cession