Important People
Important Dates
Conflicts
Movements
Trails
100
Engineered the Steel Plow
Who is John Deere
100
Sam Houston was elected as Texas' first president and they worked to become part of the United States.
What is September 1836
100
Santa Anna's forces arrived in San Antonio and fought at an abandoned Catholic mission.
What is The Alamo
100
The major Native American movement.
What is The Trail of Tears
100
Trail though California to New Mexico.
What is The Old Spanish Trail.
200
The Mexican president.
Who is Santa Anna
200
Texas joined the Union
What is February 1845
200
The Battle where Santa Anna was captured.
What is The Battle of San Jacinto.
200
The belief that god gave America this land for them to move West.
What is Manifest Destiny.
200
The trail that ran through Oregon to Missouri.
What is The Oregon Trail.
300
Lieutenant who ought to give Houstons army more time to prepare
What is William B. Travis
300
When Texas declared independence from Mexico.
What is March 2,1836
300
When threatened by Mexican troops and a party of Tejanos led by Stephen Austin, the rebels dispersed.
What is Americanizing Texas
300
Immigrant groups followed specific trails through territory owned by Native Americans.
What is Westward Migration
300
The trail from Illinois to Utah.
What is The Mormon Trail
400
A swiss immigrant from Germany who built a trading post and cattle ranch.
Who is John Sutter
400
Date Stephen F. Austin set off from Louisiana for the Texas territory and in the Notheastern corner of Mexico
What is 1821
400
A Mexican firing squad killed more than 300 men who surrendered.
What is The Goliad.
400
Late comers to the midwest set their sights on a specific coast because immigrants assumed that the treeless great plains had poor land.
What is Settling the Pacific Coast
400
Trail that went through California to Missouri.
What is The Pony Express.
500
An American trader who opened the Santa Fey Trail.
Who is William Becknell.
500
California is declared independent of Mexico.
What is June 14, 1846
500
When several thousand mormons fought their way westward.
What is The Mormon Migration
500
People who settled on land in the west that they didn't own.
What is squatters
500
A trail through Kansas and New Mexico/
What is The Santa Fey trail
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