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20 Cards in this Set
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Manifest destiny |
Was the belief that united states was to spread it's boarders from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean |
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Transcontinental railroad |
Was constructed mainly using immigrants labor (Irish Italian Chinese) |
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Mountain men |
Trapping for beaver pelts initiated the American movement to the west. |
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Rendezvous |
A meeting between the trappers and traders to exchange the pelts for supplies kept the flow of information about the west to the east |
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Oregon trial |
We're used by settlers in the move west |
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Fleeing religious prosecution |
In the east members of the lds church also known as Mormon migrated west and settled in Utah |
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Stephen f. Austin |
Led many American farmers into the Spanish land called Tejas to establish a colony there |
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Texas revolution |
Was caused by differing views between the Americans in Texas and Mexican government |
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The Mexican American war |
Disputes over the Texas border led to a clash between Mexican and me Rican soldiers on the Rio grade river |
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Treaty of Guadalupe hidalgo |
Gave the us the huge expanse of western land known as the Mexican cession |
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Discovery of gold in 1848 |
Sparked the California gold rush |
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Forty nines |
Referred to the people who flocked to California in 1849 to look for gold |
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The homestead act of 1862 |
Offered 160 acres of land free to anyone who agreed to live on improve the land for 5 years |
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Oregon territory |
The untied stares and Britain decided to divide |
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Ethnocentrism |
Is the belief that one's own race or culture is superior to another |
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Lt col. George a Custer |
And the 7th calvary were annihilated in the battle of little big horn by combined force of Sioux and Cheyenne warriors in the Montana territory on June 25 1876 |
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The dawes act |
Passed in 1886 broke up reservation and distributed the land to individual American Indians this made assimilation the official united states policy in regards to American Indian population |
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The wounded knee massacre |
In south Dakota where approximately 300 Sioux including women and children were killed marked the end of Indian resistance in the West |
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Impact of mining farming and the cattle industry |
On western boomtowns |
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Transition of open western ideals |
To closed off and restricted territory by the 1890 |
