Expanding West pretest

The belief in the idea that Americans should settle lands from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.

• Manifest Destiny

• Social Contract Theory

• Common Sense Movement

• Progressive Movement

Mexican cowboys who managed large herds

• Vaqueros

• Californios

• Placer Miners

• Buckaroos

Early California Settlers From Mexico

• Donner Party

• Prospectors

• Californios

• Cherokees

A group of western travelers who went to California but were stranded in the Sierra Nevadas during winter.

• Donner Party

• Manifest Destiny

• Placer Miners

• Vaqueros

To search for gold or other valuables

• prospect

• vaqueros

• Californios

• Donner Party

Used pans or other devices to wash gold nuggets out of loose rock and gravel.

• Place Miner

• Californios

• Vaqueros

• Donner Party

American fur trader who founded the fur-trading post of Astoria and the American Fur Company

• John Sutter

• James K. Polk

• John Jacob Astor

• Brigham Young

Successor to the Mormons after the death of Joseph Smith; led Mormons to Salt Lake City, Utah/ Brigham Young University (BYU)

• John Sutter

• John Jacob Astor

• Brigham Young

• Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla

Mexican priest who led the first major Mexican revolt against Spanish rule in 1810

• Brigham Young

• James K. Polk

• Father Miguel Hidalgo y Castillo

• John Sutter

A California settler on whose land gold was found

• John Sutter

• Brigham Young

• James K. Polk

• John Jacob Astor