Trails to the West
They were the fur traders and trappers who traveled to the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Northwest in the early 1800s.
Who are mountain men?
The agents of the Mexican republic hired to bring settlers to Texas.
Who are empresarios?
Belief that America’s fate was to conquer land all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
What is manifest destiny?
A synonym for "searching for gold."
What is prospect?
The Mormon leader who chose Utah as the group’s new home.
Who is Brigham Young?
The classic main route from the Mississippi River to the West Coast in the early 1800s. Don't die of dysentery.
What is the Oregon Trail?
This empresario capitalized on establishing the first American colony in Texas, where The Old Three Hundred (or first 300 families) quickly came to settle.
Who is Stephen F. Austin?
It is the Spanish name for cowboys.
Who are vaqueros?
Gold-seeking migrants who traveled to California in 1849.
Who are forty-niners?
His troops called him "Old Rough and Ready" because of his casual dress. He would be president after Polk.
Who is Zachary Taylor?
This route began in Independence, Missouri, and ended in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
What is The Santa Fe Trail?
Remember this? An old mission in San Antonio occupied by Texan revolutionary forces in 1836.
What is The Alamo?
1848 peace treaty between Mexico and the United States where Mexico was forced to hand over much of its northern territory.
What is The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
He was the Swiss immigrant who started the first Anglo-Californian colony in 1839, a great future prospect for he and his family...
Who is John Sutter?
Brigham Young established a strict code regulating this compound for the Mormon community due to the scarcity it.
What is H20?
Members of this religious group, also known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who moved west during the 1830s and 1840s to escape persecution.
Who are Mormons?
The decisive victory that gave Texas independence from Mexico.
What is The Battle of San Jacinto?
1846 rebellion of approximately 500 American settlers declaring California to be an independent nation against the 12,000 Californios who already lived there.
What is The Bear Flag Revolt?
The kind of miner who used pans or other devices to wash gold nuggets from loose rock or gravel.
What is a placer miner?
California's population explosion allowed it to become the ______ state in just ______ years.
What are 31st state and two years?
He sent two expedition groups: one on land, one on water and was the owner of the American Fur Company who founded the first important settlement in Oregon Country in 1811.
Who is John Jacob Astor?
Mexican general who came to power in 1830 and suspended Mexico’s constitution, turning attention to the growing unrest in Texas.
Who is Antonio López de Santa Anna?
Purchase from Mexico of the southern parts of present-day New Mexico and Arizona in 1853.
What is The Gadsden Purchase?
A group of western travelers who were trapped crossing the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the winter of 1846 –47.
What is The Donner party?
This priest led the first major Mexican revolt against Spanish rule in 1810.
Who is Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla?