6.1-6.2 Review

The idea that the United States was meant by God to control the land of North America from coast to coast

• Indian Removal Act

• California, Nevada, Utah

• Louisiana Purchase

• Manifest Destiny

Territory in western United States purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million.

• "Civilization" Program

• Oregon

• Louisiana Purchase

• Mormons

Organized by President Jefferson to explore and study the land and Natives found in the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase, to find a path to the Western (Pacific) Ocean, and to establish an American presence in the new land.

• Mormons

• Indian Removal Act

• Oregon

• Lewis and Clark Expedition

The trail commonly used by Americans to cross the United States in wagons in order to reach the West Coast

• Slavery

• Mormons

• Oregon Trail

• The Alamo

It brought new immigrants to the United States from other countries, such as China, increased business, agriculture, and population in California, and pushed for California to become a state.

• Texans (Anglos)

• Lewis and Clark Expedition

• Trail of Tears

• The Gold Rush of 1849

The religious group that was persecuted in the East and re-settled in the West, specifically in what would become Utah, in the 1840's.

• Assimilation

• Historiography

• Slavery

• Mormons

(1846-1848) The war the United States fought against Mexico in order to claim Mexican territory as their own.

• Oregon

• Trail of Tears

• "Civilization" Progam

• Mexican-American War

These modern-day states were added to the United States as a result of the Mexican American War.

• California, Nevada, Utah

• Texans (Anglos)

• Oregon Trail

• Mexican-American War

Territory that became part of the United States without any fighting.

• Manifest Destiny

• Oregon

• Lewis and Clark Expedition

• Mormons

The policy taken by the U.S. against Native Americans which forced Natives to become more similar to whites, causing many Native groups to lose unique aspects of their own culture.

• Indian Removal Act

• Assimilation

• Mexican-American War

• Slavery