Western Expansion

Western Expansion increased the ______ of the federal government

____________ ___________ led roughly 300 American immigrants to Texas.

Mexico outlawed slavery & ________________ Texas.

Thomas Jefferson did not like ____ government.

The ______________ ______________ could not be applied to California.

America sent ___________ ____________ to Florida to oppose the Black Seminoles.

James K Polk based his presidential campaign, in 1844, on _________ ____________.

America offered to ___________ California from Mexico and Mexico refused.

America _____ the Mexican-American War. 

________ ______________ were runaway slaves who assimilated into Florida Native American tribes

Western Expansion increased the territorial _____ of the United States.

Soldiers who fought in the Mexican American War & later became historically significant figures

The ______________ ___ _____ admitted California to the United States as a free state.

According to Josiah Royce California came to an awareness of the _______ _____ in the mid 1850s

The ____________ ________ is the period of time where Texans fled from the Mexican Army.

John Quincy Adams realized Spain was _______ and offered to buy Florida for $5 million.

Houston opposed Texas ___________ and refused to pledge allegiance to the _______________.

American journalist John L. Sullivan coined the phrase ______________ _____________.

America chose ___________ ____________ over subsistence farming.

Sam Houston led Texas to victory at the Battle of _____ __________.

Polk provoked Mexico to _____ over disputed land in Texas north of the Rio Grande.

Frederick Turner claimed the West was responsible for American

The federal government _____________ and _______________ Western Expansion.

The final battle of the Mexican-American War was the battle at the castle of _________________.

_____________ owned Texas, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico & California

Western Expansion fundamentally changed America's ____________, ____________, & _____________.

The Alamo is remembered because it is a battle where all of the Americans _______.

Jefferson used the _________ __________ argument to justify the Louisiana Purchase.

Texians favored cash-crops especially ____________. they used Slave labor.

Three examples of California's pursuit of the public good that started in the 1850s are:

The Treaty of ______________ ______________ was signed in 1848.