Westward Expansion Review

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  1. 3. The mass movement of people to California in search of gold. This is what helped California become a state.
  2. 7. This is what some Americans and Andrew Jackson saw Native Americans as. Something that was preventing Manifest Destiny.
  3. 8. The _______________-American War allowed the U.S. to grow even more when they won the Mexican Cession land.
  4. 10. The Purchase of land from France that made American double in size
  5. 12. The first expedition out West
  6. 13. The compromises of Westward Expansion allowed slavery to _______________ in the U.S.
  7. 14. The last name of the president that issued the Indian Removal Act.
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  1. 1. The group of Native Americans that were forcefully removed from their land and made to walk the Trail of Tears.
  2. 2. The movement of people in the West during the 19th century
  3. 4. This is what Native American tribes and Andrew Jackson would sign to remove them from their land.
  4. 5. The 19th century idea that Americans were chosen by God to settle all the land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
  5. 6. The state where a rebellion of colonists occurred against Mexico. It later became part of the U.S.
  6. 9. The divide between Northerners and Southerners on slavery eventually led to this major event.
  7. 11. Each time a state or territory was added to the U.S., they had to decide if it would be slave or _______.