Exploration: Lewis and Clark to Manifest Destiny - Page 3
Questions
- 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?
- What modern day states can be found in the Louisiana purchase?
- What was the land called that the United States acquired from Mexico?
- What is the Oregon Trail?
- What were the roles and rights of women in the West?
- Who was Secretary of State throughout James Monroe's presidency?
- What hardships did Texans face during the Santa Fe Expedition?
- What country was California part of in 1840?
- How are Manifest Destiny, Annexation of Texas, and Mexican Cession related?
- 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 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?
- Do you think the louisiana purchase promoted the development of democracy?
- 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 was Thomas Jefferson hoping to find on the Lewis and Clark expedition?