Chapter 11 - Expanding West

Jedediah Smith

________ located the most useful pass, South Pass (the most famous mountain man) Manifest Destiny caused Americans to steal, kill, and covet the land.

Trappers

________ and traders were the first whites to arrive in a new western area.

John L OSullivan

________ gave the name to "Manifest Destiny ..

Jim Bowie

________ and Sam Houston were two of the American commanders.

James K Polk

________ was the Speaker of the House won the next presidency.

Young Hickory

He was known as "________ "because he followed in the steps of Andrew Jackson.

Moses Austin

________ got permission, in 1821, to take three hundred families to Texas.

Manifest Destiny

________: The belief in the 1800s that the US was destined by God to expand across the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.

Austin

________ was from the state of Missouri.