Manifest Destiny Review

Mexicans living in California that would earn U.S. citizenship after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

• Mountain Men

• Forty-Niners

• Mormons

• Chinese

• Californios

Group of immigrants that migrated across the Pacific Ocean to find gold and riches. They suffered persecution by Americans and would spread their culture to the West.

• Mountain Men

• Forty-Niners

• Mormons

• Chinese

• Californios

Group of Americans that were the first to reach the Oregon Country.

• Mountain Men

• Forty-Niners

• Mormons

• Chinese

• Californios

A diverse group of people who rushed to California with the discovery of gold.

• Mountain Men

• Forty-Niners

• Mormons

• Chinese

• Californios

Left Illinois and moved west to present-day Utah to escape religious persecution.

• Mountain Men

• Forty-Niners

• Mormons

• Chinese

• Californios

The U.S. and Great Britain initially agreed to joint occupation of the area before the U.S. annexed this territory following Polk's campaign slogan of "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight".

• California

• Florida

• Utah

• Oregon

• Texas

Southerners were against adding this state to the union acquired from Mexico (because it would enter as a free state)

• California

• Florida

• Utah

• Oregon

• Texas

There was a boundary dispute between the U.S. and Mexico at the border of this territory eventually causing the Mexican-American War.

• California

• Florida

• Utah

• Oregon

• Texas

The Mormons escaped religious persecution by moving west to this state:

• California

• Florida

• Utah

• Oregon

• Texas

Iowa entered the union as a free state allowing this state to enter as a slave state:

• California

• Florida

• Utah

• Oregon

• Texas