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?