Ch. 12 Manifest Destiny

American Yawp

Manifest Destiny

The belief that the United States had a God-given right to expand across the North American continent.

Young America

A movement that promoted national unity, territorial expansion, democratic participation, and economic interdependence.

Negro Fort

A British fort during the War of 1812 that was attacked by the United States in 1816.

Seminole

The name given to Native American tribes who migrated to Florida.

Indian Removal

The forced relocation of Native Americans from their lands east of the Mississippi River to lands west of the river.

The Cherokee

A Native American tribe who were forcibly removed from their lands in Georgia in the 1830s.

The Treaty of New Echota

Was signed in 1835 by a faction of the Cherokee Nation and ceded Cherokee lands in Georgia for $5 million.

Black Hawk War

In 1832; resulted in the removal of the Sauk tribe to Kansas.

The Comanche

A Native American tribe who rose to power in the Southern Plains in the late eighteenth century.

The Civilization Fund Act

Passed in 1819, allocated $10,000 annually to societies that funded missionaries to establish schools among Native American tribes.

Railroads

Helped enable the rapid expansion of the United States after the Civil War.

The Texas Revolution (1835-1836)

A successful secessionist movement by Anglo settlers in Mexican Texas, or Texians, that resulted in the independent Republic of Texas.

Texas Annexation

The annexation of the Republic of Texas by the United States in 1845.

U.S.-Mexican War (1846-1848)

A war between the United States and Mexico that resulted in the United States gaining vast territories in the Southwest.

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Was signed in 1848 and ended the U.S.-Mexican War, ceding large amounts of land to the United States.

The Gold Rush

Began in California in 1848, drew thousands of people to the West in search of riches.

California immigration

Increased dramatically after the discovery of gold in 1848.

John Quincy Adams

As secretary of state, crafted the Monroe Doctrine.

The Monroe Doctrine

A policy that declared the Western Hemisphere closed to further European colonization.

Filibustering

The privately financed and unauthorized attempts to capture and occupy foreign territory.