Manifest Destiny

the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.

• Manifest Destiny

• Territory

• Missionary

• Diplomacy

the 1836 rebellion of Texans against Mexican rule that resulted in Texas becoming an independent nation.

• Texas War for Independence

• Annex

• Mexican American War

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

a sale of land in 1853 from Mexico to the United States that established the current U.S. southwestern border.

• Gadsden Purchase

• Mormons

• Mexican Cession

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

a region of land, also a region designated by Congress and organized under a governor.

• Manifest Destiny

• Territory

• Missionary

• Diplomacy

a person sent on a religious mission, especially one sent to promote Christianity in a foreign country.

• Manifest Destiny

• Territory

• Missionary

• Diplomacy

the art of conducting negotiations with other countries.

• Manifest Destiny

• Territory

• Missionary

• Diplomacy

to add a territory to a country. Such an addition is called annexation.

• Texas War for Independence

• Annex

• Mexican American War

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

the war with Mexico from 1846 to 1847 that resulted in Mexico ceding to the United States a huge region from Texas to California.

• Texas War for Independence

• Annex

• Mexican American War

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Treaty signed in 1848 that ended the Mexican War and gave the United States much of Mexico's northern territory.

• Texas War for Independence

• Annex

• Mexican American War

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

• Gadsden Purchase

• Mormons

• Mexican Cession

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo