8.5 Retake Review

California Gold Rush

• Religious group that was persecuted so they migrated west. Led by Brigham Young the created a large settlement near the Great Salt Lake in Utah.
• Migration of thousand of people to California in 1849 after gold was discovered there.
• President who signed the Indian Removal act and still carried it out after the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional.
• Belief shared by many Americans the mid-1800s that the United States was meant to expand across the continent to the Pacific Ocean.

49ers

• Land that the United States gained after winning the Mexican-American War; included California, Nevada, Utah, most of Arizona and New Mexico; and parts of Colorado, Texas and Wyoming. Complete Manifest Destiny.
• When Texas official was absorbed into the United States.
• Nickname of people that moved to California in hopes to become rich during the Gold Rush.
• The war between the United States and Mexico in which the United States acquired one half of the Mexican territory.

Transcontinental Railroad

• A native American chief who tried to unite multiple tribes against the increasing white settlement.
• Westward travel routes of wagon trains that pioneers used when they moved across the United States during the 1800s; included the Oregon Trail, Mormon Trail and California Trail.
• Railroad connecting the west and east coasts of the continental US, ending the use of overland trails.
• President who signed the Indian Removal act and still carried it out after the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional.

Manifest Destiny

• The idea that the United States' destiny was to expand across the continent to the Pacific Ocean.
• 1862 law that gave 160 acres of land to citizens willing to live on and cultivate it for five years. Led to the settlement of the Great Plains by European Americans.
• A Shoshone wowan that helped as a guide and translator during the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
• Expedition that began in 1804 to explore the lands bought from France by the United States in the Louisiana Purchase.

Monroe Doctrine

• Nickname of people that moved to California in hopes to become rich during the Gold Rush.
• The social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another
• A Shoshone wowan that helped as a guide and translator during the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
• American foreign policy opposing European interference in North and South America.

Indian Removal Act

• Purchase of French land between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains that nearly doubled the size of the United States.
• Migration of thousand of people to California in 1849 after gold was discovered there.
• Congressional act that authorized the removal of American Indians who lived east of the Mississippi River.
• The social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another

War of 1812

• Expedition that began in 1804 to explore the lands bought from France by the United States in the Louisiana Purchase.
• A war (1812-1814) between the United States and England which was trying to interfere with American trade with France.
• When Texas official was absorbed into the United States.
• A Shoshone wowan that helped as a guide and translator during the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Tecumseh

• The idea that the United States' destiny was to expand across the continent to the Pacific Ocean.
• Land that the United States gained after winning the Mexican-American War; included California, Nevada, Utah, most of Arizona and New Mexico; and parts of Colorado, Texas and Wyoming. Complete Manifest Destiny.
• A native American chief who tried to unite multiple tribes against the increasing white settlement.
• Unit of the U.S. Army which

Trail of Tears

• An 800-mile forced march made by the Cherokee from their homeland in Georgia to the Indian Territory; resulted in the death of thousands of Cherokee.
• The Cherokee Chief who went to Washington D.C. asking for past treaties be honored and his people not to be removed from their land.
• The idea that the United States' destiny was to expand across the continent to the Pacific Ocean.
• A Shoshone wowan that helped as a guide and translator during the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Manifest Destiny

• Westward travel routes of wagon trains that pioneers used when they moved across the United States during the 1800s; included the Oregon Trail, Mormon Trail and California Trail.
• Belief shared by many Americans the mid-1800s that the United States was meant to expand across the continent to the Pacific Ocean.
• A war (1812-1814) between the United States and England which was trying to interfere with American trade with France.
• The social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another