Lesson 1
Young agent who started a Texas Colony on the Colorado river
Stephen F. Austin
Cowboys
Vaqueros
Gold seeking people who were travelling to California in 1849
Forty Niners
What was America's Manifest Destiny?
Go out west and expand all the way to the Pacific Ocean
A battle where Texans were force to Santa Anna to free Texas
Battle of San Jacinto
Early California Settlers
Californios
People that searched for gold
Prospects
What percentage of the Solar Eclipse can Milwaukee see?
90%
Mexican priest, who led a rebellion for Mexico to be free.
Father Miguel
US pays $10 million for the southern parts of Arizona and New Mexico
Gadsden Purchase
Used Pans to wash gold nuggets out of rivers and rocks
Place Miners
Who won the most recent World Series?
Texas Rangers
In San Antonio, the battle sight in the Texas Revolution, it was a mission
Alamo
Ended the Mexican American war. Mexico gae Texas all territories north of the Rio Grande River
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Westward bound travelers who got stuck in the Sierra Nevada.
Donner Party
What is the capital of Alabama?
Montgomery
Agents that were hired by the Mexican government to attract settlers to Texas. They were paid in land
Empresarios
Helped Annex Oregon and Texas. In Oregon he helped signed a treaty with Great Britian to not allow war to happen
James K. Polk
Swiss immigrant that got permission to start a colony in California. Gold was found on his mill
John Sutter
Who was the first Black president of South Africa?