Unit 7 Vocabulary

Belief that US is special and should expand west from the Atlantic to the Pacific as part of its destiny

• US-Mexican War

• Trail of Tears

• Nullification Crisis

• Manifest Destiny

Adding land or territory to a country one piece at a time through a treaty, purchase, or war

• Manifest Destiny

• Veto

• Territorial Acquisition

• Trail of Tears

Territory bought from France in 1803 by President Thomas Jefferson that doubled the size of the US

• Louisiana Purchase

• Manifest Destiny

• Mexican Cession

• Adams Onis Treaty

Explorers sent out by President Jefferson; travel to Pacific Ocean using rivers and crossing Rocky Mountains

• Rocky and Bullwinkle

• Hamilton and Jefferson

• Washington and Adams

• Lewis and Clark

US annexes Republic of Texas in 1845, creates a dispute with Mexico over the Rio Grande border

• Texas Annexation

• Louisiana Purchase

• Florida Acquisition

• Ohio River Valley

Creates Northwest Territory from land north of Ohio River and west of Appalachians in 1787; set process for adding new states to US. 60,000 people.

• Northwest Ordinance

• Texas Annexation

• Florida Acquisition

• Treat of Paris 1783

US splits Oregon with British by treaty in 1846; US territory expands to the Pacific Ocean for 1st time

• Louisiana Purchase

• Ohio River Valley

• Mexican Cession

• Oregon Country

Settlers who move west in covered wagons travelling by land using routes like the Oregon Trail

• Mormons

• Pioneers

• Cherokee

• Chinese

US declares war on Mexico over Texas border dispute, US victory forces Mexico to give up land north of Rio Grande 

• US-Mexican War

• American Revolution

• War of 1812

• Civil War

Land surrendered by Mexico to the US under the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo in 1848

• Oregon Territory

• Florida Cession

• Louisiana Purchase

• Mexican Cession