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| Who first created the term Manifest Destiny in an article he wrote with that name? | |
| The belief that the United States was destined to expand and own all territory across the country, and that this was God's desire. | |
| What did the Americans claim that this concept justified? | |
| President Jackson ordered the removal of Cherokee Indians from lands west of the Mississippi River; white settlers wanted to expand onto Native Land | |
| The long, forced journey of the Cherokee due to the Indian Removal Act | |
| Mexican leader fighting Texan forces in Texas' war for Independence | |
| When Texas is added and becomes a state in 1846. | |
| In 1849 the large migration of people to the west, specifically California, in search of gold | |
| Treaty that ended the Mexican War, granting the U.S. control of Texas, New Mexico, and California in exchange for $15 million | |
| Land gained by America after the Mexican War in the Treaty of Gudalupe Hidalgo | |
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| Bill that would ban slavery in the territories acquired after the War with Mexico but failed. | |
| A U.S. General and he defeated Santa Anna in the Mexican War. | |
| U.S. General that was a military leader in the Mexican War and he was sent by President Polk to lead the American army against Mexico at Rio Grande, but defeated. | |
| Single term president whose main goal was to take western territory. He was president during the Mexican American War. | |
| fought to gain independence for Texas from Mexico and to make it a part of the United States; commander of the Texas army at the Battle of San Jacinto | |
| A famous empresario who now has a city named after him; Son of Moses Austin who worked with the Mexican government. | |
| a small mission where a group of Texan and American soldiers were killed by the Mexican army; Battle where Santa Anna surrounds Texan forces | |
| started in 1846, fought for 2 years over land, started with a border dispute in Texas | |
| The 1836 rebellion in which Texas gained its independence from Mexico. It later joined the United States. | |
| What term is used today to represent ideas similar to that of Manifest Destiny? The idea that America is superior. | |
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