6.1 - Moving West

People who favored territorial growth

• Mountain Men

• Expansionist

• Manifest Destiny

• Frontiersmen

Manifest Destiny

• A policy that established the US as the world superpower in the Western Hemisphere

• Pride in one's country

• The belief that God wanted the United States to own all of North America.

• A religious awakening that upended the Ohio River Valley

Answer explanation

Manifest means something that is clearly shown and destiny is a power that controls something happening in the future. The term was used to convince Americans that westward expansion is clearly a right granted through God's Power.

Welcomed by the Mexican officials, the traders launched a growing commerce along what became known as the ____ __ _____.

• Santa Fe Trail

• Oregon Trail

• Manifest Destiny

• Monroe Doctrine

Daring young American trappers who hunted for beaver pelts in the Rockies were called:

• Minute Men

• Yellowstone

• Pinkerton Men

• Mountain Men

An American religious leader and politician. He was the second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, from 1847 until his death in 1877. During his time as church president, _____ led his followers, the Mormon pioneers, west from Nauvoo, Illinois, to the Salt Lake Valley.

• Martin Luther

• Brigham Young

• John Wesley

• John Calvin