Movin' West

It is Divine Providence that The U.S. should extend from sea to shining sea

• Indian Removal Act

• Transcontinental Railroad 1869

• Manifest Destiny

• Mexican Cession 1848

Caused the Trail of Tears

• California Gold Rush

• Indian Removal Act

• Transcontinental Railroad 1869

• Manifest Destiny

Connected the Eastern U.S. to the Western Territories.

• Manifest Destiny

• Louisiana Purchase 1803

• Alaska Purchase 1867

• Transcontinental Railroad 1869

Free land if you farm it for 5 years.

• Homesteading

• Reservations

• California Gold Rush

• Oregon Trail

Buying it from France doubled the size of the country.

• Alaska Purchase 1867

• Louisiana Purchase 1803

• Oregon Trail

• Indian Removal Act

California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, parts of others came from this action.

• Indian Removal Act

• California Gold Rush

• Mexican Cession 1848

• Texas Annexation

Land set aside for Indian tribes

• Homesteading

• Indian Removal Act

• Reservations

• Oregon Trail

Name for the paths many settlers took on their way from east to west. A long, hard journey.

• Trail of Tears

• Oregon Trail

• Manifest Destiny

• Transcontinental Railroad 1869

Bought from Russia

• Louisiana Purchase 1803

• Texas Annexation

• Mexican Cession 1848

• Alaska Purchase 1867

Reason many immigrants and settlers moves to the San Francisco area

• Mexican Cession 1848

• Manifest Destiny

• Great Climate

• California Gold Rush