Packet 7 - STAAR REVIEW Westward Expansion

Belief that it is the fate of the United States to occupy North American from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean

• Manifest Destiny

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Republicanism

• Nationalism

Purchased from Spain in 1819 for $5 million

• Texas

• Oregon

• Florida

• Louisiana

Tendency for people living in a particular region to develop their own unique way of life

• nationalism

• regionalism

• republicanism

• sectionalism

Occurrence of statehood in 1845 following independence from Mexico

• Gadsden Purchase

• Annexation of Texas

• The Texas Revolution

• The Mexican Cession

California was admitted as a free state in exchange for the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act

• Compromise of 1850

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act

• The Missouri Compromise

• Annexation of California

Resulted in an American victory and established the Rio Grande as the border with Mexico

• The War of 1812

• The Mexican-American War

• The Texas Revolution

• The Spanish-American War

The migration of people in 1849 because of the discovery of gold

• California 49'ers

• The Mexican Cession

• California Gold Rush

• The San Francisco Gold Rush

1854 law that allowed popular sovereignty to decide whether to allow slave or free state in the territories; it replaced the Missouri Compromise

• The Missouri Compromise

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act

• The Compromise of 1850

• The Northwest Ordinance of 1854

President James K. Polk compromised with the British over this territory and extended the existing boundary line between Canada and the United States

• California

• Texas

• Canada

• Oregon

Came to America to escape famine in the 1840's

• Irish

• Germans

• Mexicans

• Americans