Unit 6 Westward Expansion

To possess the whole of the continent for the development of liberty and self government.

• Manifest Destiny

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Providence

• Mexican Cession

What area did the United States acquire in 1846 after negotiations with Great Britain?

• Oregon Territory

• Mexico

• Texas

• Florida

line dividing the Oregon country between the US and Britain

• 54th parallel

• 49th parallel

• Guadalupe Hidalgo line

• Annexation of Texas.

territory with fertile farmland, dense forests, and beavers

• Texas

• Florida

• Oregon

• Louisiana

A male trapper who explored the wilderness, mostly in the Rocky Mountains, and traded furs with Native Americans

• Manifest Destiny

• Mountain Men

• Santa Fe Trail

• Oregon Men

famous route taken by many pioneers on their way to the Northwest United States

• Oregon Trail

• Oregon Country

• Santa Fe Trail

• Gadsen Purchase

To add on

• Addition

• Connect

• Annex

• Plus

annexed by the US in 1845, thus causing a war with Mexico over the border

• Mexico

• California

• Texas

• Louisiana

land ceded to the US after the Mexican-American war, includes CA, NM, AZ

• Texas

• Oregon territory

• California Territory

• Mexican Cession

President of the US who wanted the US to achieve Manifest Destiny

• James K. Polk

• George Washington

• Abraham Lincoln

• Barack Obama