Westward Expansion

3. authorized the President to break up reservation land
4. a battle for land where Mexico was fighting to keep what they thought was their property and the U.S. desired to retain the disputed land of Texas and obtain more of Mexico's northern lands.
6. provide U.S. citizens 160 acres of surveyed government land
13. ended the war between the United States and Mexico.
14. the idea that united states is destined by god to expand
17. transporting western food crops and raw materials to East Coast markets and manufactured goods from East Coast cities to the West Coast

1. a way of governing which depends on the will of the people
2. mapped uncharted land, rivers, and mountains
5. was an American columnist, editor, and diplomat who used the term "manifest destiny" in 1845 to promote the annexation of Texas and the Oregon Country to the United States
7. a follower or advocate of a policy of territorial or economic expansion
8. Land purchase from Spain
9. the spirit of the country and American ideals
10. a rapid movement of people to a newly discovered goldfield
11. an economic system in which prices are determined by unrestricted competition between privately owned businesses
12. 11th U.S. President
15. the action of annexing something, especially territory
16. started the cattle drive