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- By the time their journey ended in March 1839, more than 4,000 Cherokees had died of________ , __________, and lack of ________.
- In 1845, many Americans believed that the United States should one day stretch fromthe ___________Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
- In 1830, Congress passed the ____________________________________________and Jackson signed it into law.
- In response to the Indian Removal Act, many tribes _______________ to leavetheir homelands.
- Andrew Jackson believed that Native Americans threatened the _________________of the United States.
- This became known as ___________________________________________.
- This flood of fortune hunters to California is known as the_____________________________________.
- Jackson believed that moving Native Americans to land ______________ of theMississippi River would end the threat.
- The gold seekers began calling themselves ______________________________because they had arrived in the year 1849.
- United States citizens also began moving to Mexican territories that included what arenow the states of ____________________________, ____________________________,and ________________________________.
- President ___________________________________agreed to divide the OregonCountry with Britain.
- New ______ allowed all white men age ____ years or older to vote.- This tremendously increased the numbers of people voting.
- Americans heading west consisted of families who traveled in groups of wagons, called_________________________________________, led by experienced guides.
- Americans in the early 1800's began to push beyond the nation's ____________.
- As the United States expanded westward, the government began to include members ofCongress who gave a voice to the ___________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________.
- Life on the _______________________________________ was long andhard.- The Oregon Trail was more than _________miles long.
- Which of these protests caused Hoover's popularity to plunge dramatically in 1932?
- A treaty was signed as an agreement between Britain and the United States to extendthe United States-Canada border at the _____________________________ all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
- In the late 1840's, news of ______ being discovered at Sutter's Mill drew 80,000 peopleto California from Europe, Asia, and other parts of the United States.
- Their destination was the rich farmland of the _________________________.