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What was made to connect the east with the Ohio valley in the

west through the Appalachian Mountains?

What was the belief that America should extend it’s borders to the Pacific Ocean?

What treaty gave the U.S. Florida, and resolved the territorial disputes between the U.S. and Spain?

What’s the name of the forced march that moved 15,000 Cherokee west and

and resulted in more than 4,000 deaths in the winter of 1838-39?

Trail of Tears

What act allowed the federal government to pay the Native

Americans to move west?

Mexico gave up all claims to Texas, California and New Mexico (the southwest) in this treaty.

In the 1820’s congressmen, Henry Clay of Kentucky, proposed this system to improve transportation between the South, Northeast, and West.

This was passed by congress in 1862 that gave 160 acres of land to settlers who paid a filing fee and lived on the

land for five years

What allowed the federal

government to pay Native

Americans to move west?

What school was important to American Art because it encourage the artist to paint natural wonders

(scenery) instead of people