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A region of land purchased from Mexico that was added to Arizona and New Mexico.

• Louisiana Purchase

• Gadsden Purchase

• Manifest Destiny

The people who joined the rush for gold in California in 1849.

• Immigrants

• Homesteaders

• Forty-Niners

A farmer who is given a plot of public land in return for cultivating it.

• Homesteader

• Forty-Niners

• Immigrant

The belief that it was the United States' right and duty to spread across the North American continent.

• Annexation

• Gadsden Purchase

• Manifest Destiny

An overland route that stretched about 2,000 miles from Independence, Missouri to the Columbia River in Oregon.

• Oregon Trail

• Manifest Destiny

• Santa Fe Trail

To add a territory to a country.

• Louisiana Purchase

• Immigrant

• Annex

A person who moves from one country to another.

• Emigrant

• Immigrant

• Homesteader