Unit 3: Growth And Crisis (Early Frontier)

Question 1

Expansion:

Answer 1

Gaining greater territory through military, political or economic means

Question 2

Territory

Answer 2

An organized division of a country that has not been admitted as a state

Question 3

Treaty

Answer 3

A formal agreement between counties, subject to congressional approval

Question 4

Manifest Destiny

Answer 4

The American belief that it was out God-given right to expand from the Atlantic to Pacific Oceans

Question 5

Motivations for Moving West (Pull Factors)

Answer 5

Land ownership, new economic opportunities

Question 6

Motivations for Moving West (Push Factor) :(

Answer 6

Escaping religious persecution (Mormons)

Question 7

The Oregon Trail

Answer 7

Major trail to the Oregon territory. Settlers traveled for months. Many died of disease. By 1844, nearly 5,000 had arrived in Oregon

Question 8

Treaty of Fort Laramie (1851)

Answer 8

provided many Native American nations with lands east of the Rocky Mountains, in return the Natives and forts. The U.S. pledged to honor the treaty. But U.S. government repeatedly violated the treaty, forcing many tribes onto reservations.

Question 9

The Oregon Territory(1842)

Answer 9

US and Britain sign treaty to establish joint occupation of the territory

Question 10

The Oregon Territory (1844):

Answer 10

• most of the territory is occupied by Americans, James K. Polk runs his presidential campaign promising to annex the territory
• Britain and U.S. peacefully agreed to the Oregon Treaty, establishing the northern boundaries of the Oregon territory along Canada.

Question 11

Who did Americans believe gave them the right to expand from the Atlantic to Pacific?

Answer 11

God

Question 12

“Fifty-Four or Fight” is associated with which territory

Answer 12

Oregon Territory