Moving West Foldable

Where is the Oregon Country located?

• Between the Pacific Ocean anf the Rocky Mountains

• Between the Atlantic Ocean and the Appalachian Mountains

• In the Southwest Near Mexico

• Between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mississippi River.

What was the job of the first settlers in the Oregon Country?

• Miners

• Fur Traders/trappers

• Native Americans

• Fishing

What is Manifest Destiny?

• A mall in Syracuse

• A religious group

• The belief that god had given the entire continent to Americans

• The policy of removing Native Americans

How did settlers from 1837-1850 get to Oregon?

• The Oregon Trail

• The Erie Canal

• The Lewis & Clark Expedition

Where did a major battle take place in February 1836?

• The Alamo

• Bunker Hill

• Lexington & Concord

• War of 1812

Why was there growing tensions in Texas?

• There were more Americans living there than Mexicans and Americans had not adopted Mexican Laws.

• There are more Mexicans living there than Americans and they wanted to be free.

• The people living in Texas wanted to be part of Canada

• The people of Texas were upset that the government built the Erie Canal in Texas without their consent.

Why didn't Texas become a state until 1845

• Texans did not want to join the United States

• Texans had to get permission from Mexico to join

• Texans had to get permission from Spain to join

• They had to wait to keep balance between free and slave states.

A law passed in 1820 that kept the balance of power between slave states and free states?

• Monroe Doctrine

• The Quartering Act

• Missouri Compromise

• the Bill of Rights

The Sante Fe trail was important to the growth of the United States because?

• It was a busy trade route from Missouri to New Mexico

• It was a busy trade route from Missouri to Arizona

• It was a direct water route to the Mississippi River

• It connected the Erie Canal to the Rio Grande River

Why did war break out between Mexico and the United States

• US wanted to trade at the shipping port of New Orleans

• US annexed Florida from Spain and it became a state

• Mexico attacked Canada

• US wanted to buy California and New Mexico and Mexico refused