Manifest Destiny Vocab

Question 1

Manifest Destiny

Answer 1

belief that God wanted the United States to own all of North America

Question 2

Santa Fe Trail

Answer 2

trade between Americans and Mexicans across the Great Plains

Question 3

Mountain Men

Answer 3

trappers who hunted for beaver pelts in the Rockies

Question 4

Oregon Trail

Answer 4

trail from Independence, MO to Oregon traveled by settlers

Question 5

Brigham Young

Answer 5

took after Mormon church after Joseph Smith was killed

Question 6

Treaty of Fort Laramie

Answer 6

bounded the Indians to territories away from the major trails

Question 7

Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

Answer 7

general who seized power in Mexico

Question 8

Autonomy

Answer 8

independent control over a community’s affairs

Question 9

Lone Star Republic

Answer 9

Texas’ new nation

Question 10

Alamo

Answer 10

fortified former mission in San Antonio

Question 11

Sam Houston

Answer 11

led the attack against the Mexicans

Question 12

James Polk

Answer 12

a Jacksonian democrat and slave holder who believed in Manifest Destiny

Question 13

Zachary Taylor

Answer 13

led army to occupy the contested borderland between the two rivers

Question 14

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Answer 14

forced Mexico to give up 1.2 mil square miles of their land to the U.S.

Question 15

Gadsden Purchase

Answer 15

America obtained present day Arizona and New Mexico from Mexico

Question 16

Wilmot Proviso

Answer 16

document that banned slavery in any new lands won from Mexico

Question 17

California Gold Rush

Answer 17

mass migration to California in search for easy riches

Question 18

Forty Niners

Answer 18

California migrants who traveled by land trails

Question 19

Placer Mining

Answer 19

miners who used cheap picks, shovels and metal pans to harvest gold flecks along the sand

Question 20

Hydraulic Mining

Answer 20

employed jets of water to erode gravel hills into long lines of sluices to catch the gold