Answer: 24: Polk ran on a Democratic platform that supported manifest destiny, the idea that Americans were predestined to occupy the entire North American continent.
25:trading cities are Hangzhou, Timbuktu, and Malacca. All are strategically located along major waterways.
26:This route saved ten days and would carry 75 percent of all future trade. 1821 - William Becknell, a Missouri trader, was the first to follow the route that later became known as the Santa Fe Trail.
27:This famous crossing was used by Indians from early times as well as later travelers on the Cimarron route.
28:The Old Spanish Trail from Santa Fe, in Mexican New Mexico Territory to Los Angeles, in Mexican Alta California, developed in 1829–1830 to support the trade of New Mexican wool products for California horses and mules and carried parties of fur traders and emigrants from New Mexico to Southern California.
29: Kalalau Trail, Hawaii
30:The Oregon Trail was a wagon road stretching 2170 miles from Missouri to Oregon's Willamette Valley.
31:Two crucial provisions of the treaty were British recognition of U.S. independence and the delineation of boundaries that would allow for American western expansion.
32:Between 1847 and 1860, over 43,000 Mormon settlers and tens of thousands of travelers on the California Trail and Oregon Trail followed Young to Utah.
33:Missionaries Blaze the Oregon Trail By the 1840s, the Manifest Destiny had Americans in the East eager to expand their horizons.
34:Ten years later, after a series of revelations and dramatic visitations to Joseph and others, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was officially organized on 6 April 1830, in Fayette, New York.
35: Brigham Young became the new leader of the Mormons. In 1845, he decided that the Mormons needed to move again. He thought that they needed somewhere isolated.