Worksheet # 77

Horace Greeley    Providence      Oregon Trail       Donner Party       Brigham Young
54' 40' or fight      Great Salt Lake     Guadalupe-Hidalgo     pretext     Polk 

1) A word for fate or destiny that is believed to be God's will:________.
2) A Mormon leader who led a migration to the west: _________.
3) The President who began a war with Mexico in 1845: ________.
4) Treaty which ended this war and gave a large portion of the
         American southwest to the U.S.: __________.
5) The slogan of Americans who demanded that all of the Oregon
          Territory should belong to the U.S. and not Britain: ________.
6) A stated reason to do something that is not the real reason
         a person has: _______.
7) A major wagon route to the West beginning in Missouri: _______.
8) The area in Utah where Mormons settled in 1847: _________.
9) Influential newspaperman who encouraged migration West: _______.
10) Group of emigrants who were trapped by a sudden snowstorm
           in the Sierra Nevada mountains:___________.

Thought Question:  What were some of the reasons Americans thought
      they had a right to possess the whole continent?













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