Unit 6 history

Treaty that ended the Mexican American War, granting the U.S. control of Texas, New Mexico, and California.

• territory

• Annexation

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Northwest Ordinance

Easterners who moved to California after the discovery of gold there in 1849.

• Forty-Niners

• Immigration

• Migration

• pioneer

A belief in the mid-1800s that the United States should expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.

• Manifest Destiny

• pioneer

• statehood

• Northwest Ordinance

Established a system for setting up states in the Northwest Territory.

• Northwest Ordinance

• territory

• Annexation

• Migration

The process of individuals moving into a new country to live there.

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• statehood

• pioneer

• Immigration

Legally adding a region to a country. (example: Texas Annexation)

• Annexation

• Forty-Niners

• territory

• Migration

A person who is among the first to explore or settle a new country or area.

• pioneer

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Manifest Destiny

• Immigration

movement of people from one place to another

• Migration

• Manifest Destiny

• territory

• Immigration

status of being recognized as a state of the union

• Annexation

• statehood

• Forty-Niners

• Northwest Ordinance

an area of land that is part of a country without the rights, responsibilities, or powers of a state or a nation

• Migration

• territory

• Manifest Destiny

• Immigration