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Manifest Destiny AH
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the belief that the United States had the right to all the land between the Atlantic and Pacific | Manifest Destiny |
| Trail from Missouri to Oregon | Oregon Trail |
| Slogan used in the 1844 presidential election as a call for US annexation of the Oregon Territory | "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight" |
| Texas's war for independence from Mexico | Texas Revolution |
| site of a key battle in the Texas Revolution, ~300 Texans killed by Santa Anna's troops | Alamo |
| to make part of, to incorporate something into something else (add land) | Annex |
| 11th President, supported Manifest Destiny and the annexation of Texas and Oregon | James K. Polk |
| People who came to California in 1849 in search of gold | Forty-Niners |
| Movement of people to a place in which gold has been discover | Gold Rush |
| President who claimed to be protecting Indians from destruction by moving them west of the Mississippi River. | Andrew Jackson |
| A U.S. law passed in 1830 that removed Indian tribes from their homelands to federal territory in the west. | Indian Removal Act |
| The route that several Indian tribes were forced to use to migrate west to reservations. | Trail of Tears |