Westward Expansion SG

What is Manifest Destiny?

• Idea that America had to abolish slavery in 1802

• America’s right to led Indigenous people off their land in 1855

• America’s mission to expand west to the Pacific Ocean during in the 1800’s

What were the goals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition?

• Andrew Jackson’s idea to send the Corps of Discovery to discover trade routes in the north in 1808

• Thomas Jefferson told the Corps of Discovery to expand west because there may be resources in 1802

• Lewis told Clark to expand south for new indigenous tribes in 1815

What was the Louisiana Purchase?

• Land bought from Napoleon in 1803 by Thomas Jefferson

• Land bought by England in 1815 by Andrew Jackson

• Land bought from South America in 1867 by Thomas Jefferson

What was the Texas Annexation?

• Texas being admitted as England territory in 1899

• An annexation that caused the Mexican-American war which led to conflict

• Texas being admitted as a U.S. state. That wasn’t admitted earlier bc of slave and union conflict.

• Texas being admitted as a single republic because the U.S didn’t want another state because of indigenous people.

What was the Mexican Cession?

• Texas being admitted as a U.S state that wasnt submitted earlier because of the slave and union states

• Land bought from Napoleon in 1803 by Thomas Jefferson

• Lands Mexico ceded after the Mexican American war in 1848

What was the Oregon Trail?

• A trail that was traveled on from Missouri to Oregon in 1850

• A trail used to travel from Illinois to Utah in 1846

• A route that connected Missouri with Santa Fe, NM in 1821

• A trail that went from western Missouri to Northern California in 1841-69

What was the Mormon trail?

• A trail that was traveled on from Missouri to Oregon in 1850

• A trail used to travel from Illinois to Utah in 1846

• A route that connected Missouri with Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1821.

• The California trail went from western Missouri across the great plains into the Rocky mountains to northern California. 1841-69

What was the Santa Fe trail?

• A route that connected Missouri with Santa Fe NM in 1821

• A trail that connected western Missouri to northern California in 1841-69

• A trail that was traveled on from Missouri to Oregon in 1850

What was the California Trail?

• A route that connect in Missouri with Santa Fe New Mexico and 1821

• A trail that was traveled on from Missouri to Oregon in 1850

• A trail that was used to travel on from Illinois to Utah in 1846

• And trail that traveled from Western Missouri to Northern California in 1841 through 1869

What hardships did emigrants face on the Oregon trail?