Module 11: Westward Expansion

The Oregon Country was located in the following region

• Southwest

• New England

• Northwest

• Midwest

Mountain Men

• Adopted Native American customs

• Worked as guides out west

• Worked as fur trappers

• All of the above

Manifest Destiny is a belief that

• It was fate that the US should settle from sea to sea

• God did not want the US to spread across the continent

• All US citizens should become followers of the Mormon faith

• Native Americans should keep all of their ancestral land

Effects of Manifest Destiny included

• Freedom for all slaves in north and south

• Equal rights for Chinese immigrant gold workers

• Native American removal and Mexican War

• The end of western expansion of the US

The purpose of Whitman’s Mission in Oregon was to

• Teach Chinese language and customs to the local people

• Convert Cayuse to Christianity and provide medical care

• Honor President Polk for his strong leadership

• Find a location suitable for racing prairie schooners

Dr. and Mrs. Whitman were killed and the Whitman mission destroyed because

• They tried to relocate it to the rocky mountain area of Canada

• The Native Americans did not want to become Buddhists

• They were followers of witchcraft who flew on clean sweep brooms

• Native Americans blamed them for their children’s measles deaths

One of President Polk’s main goals was to

• Take over all of Oregon

• Keep America small and manageable

• Immediately make peace with Mexico

• Convince people Manifest Destiny was wrong

How did the Santa Fe Trail benefit the New Mexico Territory?

• It created a direct route to Boston, Massachusetts

• It was a short cut for planters moving from Virginia to Florida

• Traders and settlers could travel easily to New Mexico

• Ghost towns began to grow in New Mexico

People who went to California in the gold rush were known as forty-niners because

• It started in 1749

• 49 men fit in a wagon

• It took 49 years to get there

• Most got there in 1849

Vigilantes…

• Followed all laws exactly as written every day

• Took law into own hands as if judge, jury and police

• Wanted to restore all land back to Native Americans

• Mostly lived in cities in the northeast region