Westward Expansion

A U.S. state in which the practice of slavery was illegal and prohibited.

• Free State

• Slave State

A U.S. state in which the practice of slavery was legal.

• Slave State

• Free State

11th president of the US who supported Manifest Destiny

• Abraham Lincoln
• George Washington
• Thomas Jefferson
• James K. Polk

The idea that the US should stretch all the way to the Pacific Ocean

• Manifest Destiny
• Pacific Expansion
• Destiny Manifest
• Fate of the Union

The vast region in the Pacific Northwest, contested between the United States and Britain, settled by the Oregon Trail pioneers.

• Idaho Territory
• Oregon Territory
• California Territory
• Washington Territory

People came to California looking to find gold in 1849, increasing the population of the territory.

• The Texas Oil Boom
• The Florida Citrus Rush
• The Alaska Diamond Rush
• The California Gold Rush

The purchase of parts of Arizona and New Mexico from the country of Mexico.

• Mexican Cession
• Louisiana Purchase
• Alaska Purchase
• Gadsden Purchase

Members of a church founded by Joseph Smith in Utah Territory.

• Mormons
• Catholics

• Baptists
• Presbyterians

The conflict in the early 1830s where Texan settlers sought independence from Mexican rule, leading to the establishment of the Republic of Texas.

• Louisiana Purchase
• California Gold Rush
• Texas Revolution
• Mexican-American War

Land acquired by the United States from Mexico after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, including present-day California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and parts of Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas, and Oklahoma.

• Mexican Cession
• British Conquest
• French Annexation
• Spanish Acquisition