Opening the Frontier

Belief that the United States would expand across the continent

• Monroe Doctrine

• Manifest Destiny

• Oregon Treaty

• Land grant

Treaty that gave Native Americans control of the central plains

• Treaty of Fort Laramie

• Oregon Treaty

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Annex

Trail from Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico

• Santa Fe Trail

• Oregon Trail

• Appalachian Trail

• The Long Trail

Trail from Missouri to Oregon

• Santa Fe Trail

• Oregon Trail

• Appalachian Trail

• The Long Trail

Religious group that settled near present-day Salt Lake City

• Presbyterians

• Christians

• Mormons

• Hindus

Founder and leader of the Mormons

• Joseph Smith

• Brigham Young

• James K. Polk

• Zachary Taylor

Leader of the Mormons who moved the group west to Utah

• Joseph Smith

• Brighman Young

• James K. Polk

• Zachary Taylor

Slogan used in the 1844 presidential election as a call for U.S. annexation of the Oregon Territory

• Forty-niners

• Land grant

• Annex

• "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!"

Treaty between the United States and Britain that extended the mainland boundary with Canada along the 49th parallel and establishing the current United States boundary

• Oregon Treaty

• Treaty of Fort Laramie

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Treaty of Gadsden

Gift of public land to an individual or organization

• Annex

• Forty-niners

• Land grant

• Manifest destiny