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? |