Settling West
Trappers who lived in Oregon Country
What is Mountain Men?
Centers built by the Spanish in the new world to convert Native Americans to Christianity
What is a mission?
President during the war with Mexico
What is James Polk?
Polygamy meant this
What is having multiple wives?
To give up land
What is cede?
Route west that reached over 2000 miles from Missouri to Oregon
What is Oregon Trail?
A government that the Mexicans had
What is a dictatorship?
The 28th independent state of Mexico
What is Texas?
Mormons settled in this place
What is Salt Lake City, Utah?
To expand land
What is annex?
Meeting place
What is Rendezvous?
"Alamo" in Spanish
What is cottonwood tree?
Border between Texas and Mexico
What is Rio Grande?
Gold was first discovered in this place
What is Sutters Mill, California?
Two leaders of the Mormons
What is Joseph Smith and Brigham Young?
States that the Oregon Trail when through
What is Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana?
Gen. who seized control of Mexico and didn't let Texas break free
What is Santa Anna?
Two states Mexico gave up
What is California and New Mexico?
People who chased gold in the west
What is 49'eers?
The idea that the United States should expand across North America
What is Manifest Destiny?
Mountain Man that found the pass through the Sierra Nevada into California
What is James Beckworth?
The battle at the Alamo lasted how long
What is 12 days?
Mexicans would face discrimination and unfair treatment from these people
What is white settlers?
People built these towns that rarely were in order
What is boom towns?
Capital of Texas
What is Austin?