Mr. Cox Manifest Destiny Quiz #1

Manifest Destiny

The belief that the US should EXPAND from sea to shining sea, A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined by God to rule the continent, from the Atlantic the Pacific.

Territorial Expansion

Know the territories added to the United States during era. Make sure to be able to identify the territories on the map.

American Progress by John Gast

This painting, by John Gast, represents this movement in American History

Monroe Doctrine

A statement of foreign policy which proclaimed that Europe should not interfere in affairs within the United States or in the development of other countries in the Western Hemisphere.

Adams Onis Treaty

1819 treaty between United States and Spain in which stain seceded Florida to the United States also called the trans constitutional treaty

Webster Ashburton Treaty

Document signed to end border disputes between the US and British Canada. Resolved the issue of the Maine-New Brunswick border and Minnesota. Agreed to shared use of the Great Lakes.

Meriwether Lewis

Former Army Captain selected by President Jefferson to explore the Louisiana Territory from 1804-1806

William Clark

Co-leader on Corps of Discovery Expedition

Sacagawea

The daughter of a Shoshone chief who was the guide of the Lewis and Clark expedition.

Missouri Compromise

Passed in 1820, allowed two states to enter the US and drew a LINE at 36'30" that banned slavery north of it

Oregon Trail

This was a 2,000-mile historical route from the Missouri River to Oregon City, Oregon, used by hundreds of thousands of pioneers between the 1840s and 1860s to settle the American West, notably the Willamette Valley. This arduous overland journey took months by wagon, leading through present-day Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Idaho, before reaching the Pacific Northwest. Painting called the Oregon Trail, by Albert Bierstadt.

California Trail

This was an emigrant trail of about 1,600 mi across the western half of the North American continent from Missouri River towns to what is now the state of California. It followed the same corridor of networked river valley trails as the Oregon Trail then split to head to California.