Exploration: Lewis and Clark to Manifest Destiny

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• What does John O'Sullivan mean when he says it is “our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence"?
• What were most U.S. Midwestern cities established near?
• What was different about Andrew Jackson's inauguration?
• What was the Monroe Doctrine?
• What natural landmark formed the new western boundary of the United States?
• Why is Washington Irving considered an important American writer?
• What happened at the Alamo?
• What movements in the late 1800s addressed urban problems?
• How are Manifest Destiny, Annexation of Texas, and Mexican Cession related?
• How is the idea of Manifest Destiny reflected in the annexation of Texas?
• What were some benefits of annexation of Texas?
• Why was the annexation of Texas was opposed by many Americans?
• What did the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo result in?
• Why was the ruling in McCuIIoch v. Maryland significant?
• Why did expansionists want to obtain land in New Mexico, Texas, and California?
• To whom did the religious revivals of the 1820s and the 1830s appeal the most?
• Why might the idea of utopian communities appeal to the transcendentalists?
• What was different, or unique, about the musket parts that were first introduced in a demonstration to President John Adams In 1801?
• What was a major reason for the War of 1812?
• Why did Americans migrate westward to Mexico, California, and Oregon after 1815? Where did they come from? What were the experiences along the Overland Trail?
• What issue did the Land Ordinance of 1785 address?
• Who led the Texas Rangers at the Battle of Salado Creek?
• How did manifest destiny affect Spanish and Mexican rule in California?
• What land area made up the Northwest Territory?
• How significant was Manifest Destiny in shaping government policy and people's attitudes and actions between 1780 and 1860?
• Why did President Thomas Jefferson choose to make the Louisiana Purchase?
• What was the result of the Louisiana Purchase?
• What events led Mormons to move to Utah?
• Where was the Gadsden Purchase located?
• How did the Treaty of Paris divide land in North America?
• Where did most Americans live in the early 1800s?
• What rivers did the Adams-Onis Treaty line follow?
• What piece of American legislation virtually cut off all trade with Europe?
• Which factors indicate that there was an economic depression in the United States after the Revolutionary War?
• What was the significance of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Marbury v. Madison (1803)?
• How do Jackson and Calhoun differ when it comes to States' Rights vs. Federal Rights?
• What was the outcome of the Gadsden Purchase?
• How did the war against Mexico help the United States achieve its manifest destiny?
• What body of water blocked further expansion of Florida to the west?
• What line of latitude did the United States and Great Britain agree upon as the border of the Oregon Territory?
• What actions of Great Britain and France pushed the United States into fighting the War of 1812?
• Why was farming very difficult for the early farmers of the plains?
• Who profited the most from the Gold Rush of 1849?
• Why did many Americans want to settle in the Oregon Territory?
• What were the results of the War of 1812?
• Before the War of 1812, what did Great Britain do to the US to draw it into war?
• Florida was bought by U.S.A. from which country?
• How did President James K. Polk achieve Manifest Destiny between 1845-1849?
• Who was the army lieutenant sent by Jefferson to explore parts of the wilderness in addition to Lewis and Clark, and where did he explore?
• Why were farmers and settlers especially likely to support the war of 1812?
• Who was the president of the U.S. when Texas was annexed to the U.S.?
• What country was California part of in 1840?
• Who is the justice who wrote the Supreme Court's decision in Marbury v. Madison?
• How did the government support settlement of the West?
• What is the Oregon Trail?
• What industry did Georgia establish after the Civil War.
• What was James K Polk's three part war plan in the Mexican-American War?
• Why are local elections important?
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• Did Jefferson Davis do anything when he was the president of the Confederacy?
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• Who won the Battle of New Orleans against the British?
• From 1800 to 1850 much of the populace of the United States moved in which direction?
• What was one effect of settlers bringing herds of sheep and cattle to the West in the mid-1800s?
• In the mid-1800s, what was one result of the Manifest Destinyt?
• How did the views of the Whigs and Democrats differ from those in the Free-Soil Party?
• What was the purpose of the Lewis and Clark expedition?
• What did supporters believe a national bank would do for the United States?
• Why did Jefferson consider the Embargo Act a form of "peaceable coercion"?
• What happened in 1841 after President William Henry Harrison died in office and has continued to be the practice for filling a presidential vacancy ever since?
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• Who was affected by the Embargo Act of 1807?
• How did the Hudson's Bay Company expand the fur trade?
• What was the western border of the American frontier in 1783?
• What was the name of the first French colony in Texas?
• How did the Louisiana Purchase affect the United States and its government?
• The Missouri Compromise allowed which two states to enter the Union?
• What was the outcome of the Battle of Little Big Horn?
• Why did Andrew Jackson oppose the national bank?
• Why did industrialists favor the national bank?
• What did President James Polk hope to gain as a result of provoking a war with Mexico?
• Which European country first claimed the area that is now Oklahoma?
• In the early 1800s, what were the main goals of liberals?
• Why was the war of 1812 significant to the United States?
• Why did Thomas Jefferson order the embargo against Great Britain in 1807?
• Why did settlers begin to kill off the buffalo?
• What was one of the main reasons why many Americans began moving from rural to urban areas?
• What is an immigrant group that helped with the building of the Transcontinental Railroad?
• Why was the White Man's Burden written and what was was its purpose?
• How was the Spanish-American war different from earlier U.S wars?
• What was the name of a major gold discovery in the Sierra Nevada Mountains?
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• Who was the "Father of Texas"?
• What hardships did Texans face during the Santa Fe Expedition?
• What modern day states can be found in the Louisiana purchase?
• What was the last piece to complete manifest destiny and why did we need it ?
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• What caused the population explosion from 1780 to 1830?
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• Why did the Mormon community move to Utah?
• What happened to California's population as a result of the Gold Rush?
• What was the land called that the United States acquired from Mexico?
• What area of North America did the US gain through the Louisiana Purchase?
• How did experiencing the move out west make Americans more resourceful?
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• Why did popular sovereignty fail in the 1854 Kansas elections?
• How did nullification relate to tariffs in the early 1800s?
• What did expansionists mean by the term Manifest Destiny?
• What major metal was discovered in California that increased westward expansion?
• What effects did mining have in the West?
• What were the roles and rights of women in the West?
• What were some of the effects of the idea of Manifest Destiny?
• Why were many US. citizens against the Second Bank of the United States, which was an attempt by Congress to restore order in the monetary system in 1816?
• How did the concept of Manifest Destiny lead to war with Mexico?
• What important port city was acquired through the Louisiana Purchase?
• Why did President Jefferson want to buy the city of New Orleans from France?
• How did Thomas Jefferson double the size of the United States?
• Why did settlers need to be able to use the Mississippi River?
• Who were the main beneficiaries of the idea of Manifest Destiny?
• Who was Secretary of State throughout James Monroe's presidency?
• Which two countries did the newly formed United States have problems with?
• What are two reasons that James Madison went to war with Great Britain in the War of 1812?
• Why was the Mexican-American War knows as "Mr. Polk's War"?
• What are two effects of the Lewis and Clark expedition?
• How would you describe and explain the significance of McCulloch v. Maryland?