Westward Expansion

Land purchased from France in 1803 cost = 15 million. Doubled the size of the U.S.

• Gadsden Purchase

• Louisiana Purchase

• Alamo

• Mexican Cession

War between the U.S. and Mexico; May 11, 1846 to fight for California and New Mexico

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Louisiana Purchase

• Mexican American War

• California Gold Rush

Received the first land grant in 1821 to set up a colony in Texas

• Napoleon Bonaparte

• Meriwether Lewis

• Sam Houston

• Moses Austin

French Emperor/dictator who sold America the land in the Louisiana Purchase

• William Clark

• Napoleon Bonaparte

• Sacagawea

• Stephen Austin

Campaign slogan of James Polk used in the 1844 Presidential election

• Fifty Four Forty or Fight

• Manifest Destiny

• Alamo

• Prairie Schooners

Sturdy wagons with white tops settlers used to move west.

• Conestoga Wagon

• Forty Niner

• Tejanos

• Missions

Route founded by Willam Becknell; starts in Independence MO follows Arkansas River, ends in Sante Fe New Mexico (moved goods/trade route)

• Oregon Trail

• Louisiana Purchase

• Sante Fe Trail

• Mexican Cession

Gold was discovered in 1848. Thousands came to find wealth

• California Gold Rush

• Mexican American War

• Gadsden Purchase

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Mexicans who claimed Texas as their homeland ( about 3000 in 1803)

• Annex

• Tejanos

• Alamo

• Missions

Began in Missouri, ended in Oregon. 2,000 miles long (moved people)

• Oregon Trail

• Forty Niner

• Sante Fe Trail

• Louisiana Purchase