Unit 4: Manifest Destiny and Expansion Flashcards
Capitalism
The economic system in which private businesses control and own the production of a good and sell it to earn product
Charles GoodYear
Vulcanized Rubber
John Deer
Steel Plow
Elias Howe
Sewing Machine
Cyrus McCormick
Mechanical Reaper
The Big Picture
John Gash and it signified the moving west of the U.S
Mormons
Religious group
Brigham Young
Smith’s successor as leader of the LDS church
Treaty of Fort Lamar
Compromise with Native Americans
Oregon Trail
Missouri to Portland and used to move west
Polk Slogan
54-40 or fight
Texas leaders
Jim Bouie
David Crockett
Col. Travis
President of Mexico
Santa Anna
Stephen Austin
Most successful empresario
Empresarios
Americans who are given land and work to attract other settlers to buy smaller land with the land they are given
Treaty of Velasco
End the Texas Revolution
Sam Houston
Militia general of the Texan Army
Why does Polk send Zachary Taylor to Mexico
To negotiate for land but denied
Where was J. Freemont sent to?
California
Where was Stephen Kearney sent to?
New Mexico
What land does Freemont gain?
California
Who assisted J. Freemont?
Kit Carson
What land does S. Kearney gain?
New Mexico
Treaty of Hidalgo
End the Mexican-American War
