Unit 6 Key Terms review

Belief shared by many Americans in the mid-1800s that the U.S. should expand across the continent to the Pacific Ocean

•  Manifest Destiny

•  “54-40 or fight!”

• Mexican Cession

• Bear Flag Revolt

Campaign slogan used in election of 1844 by Polk implying that he would declare war if Britain did not give the U.S. all of Oregon territory up to its northern border.

• Manifest Destiny

• “54-40 or fight!”

• Mexican Cession

• Bear Flag Revolt

2,000 mile trail stretching through the Great Plains from western Missouri to the Oregon Territory

• California Trail

• Santa Fe Trail

• Oregon Trail

• Mormon Trail

Important trade trail west from Independence, Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico.

• Oregon Trail

• Mormon Trail

• California Trail

• Santa Fe Trail

1,300-mile long route from Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah that Mormons traveled from 1846-47

• Mormon Trail

• Oregon Trail

• Santa Fe Trail

• California Trail

1,600 mile trail branching off of the Oregon Trail at Snake River, Idaho through the Sierra Nevada mountains to California.

• Mormon Trail

• California Trail

• Santa Fe Trail

• Oregon Trail

Group of settlers on their way to California that got stranded in the Sierra Nevada mountains; half of them survived; allegedly resorting to cannibalism to survive.

• Donner Party

• empresarios

• Forty-niners

• Mexican Cession

People who were contracted by Mexico to bring settlers to eastern Texas in the early 1800s

• Donner Party

• empresarios

• Mexican Cession

• Forty-niners

War fought from October 1835 to April 1836 between Mexico and Texas colonists that resulted in Texas’s independence from Mexico and the founding of the Republic of Texas

• Battle of the Alamo

• Bear Flag Revolt

• Texas War for Independence

• Mexican-American War

13 day battle during the Texas War for Independence in San Antonio, Texas. It ended in a decisive victory for Mexican forces over Texan volunteers.

• Bear Flag Revolt

• Texas War for Indepenence

• Mexican-American War

• Battle of the Alamo