Texas
Year they gained independence
What is 1836?
States involved in the Missouri Compromise
What is Missouri and Maine?
Missouri Compromise
What is introducing Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state?
Resources enticing people to move west
What is land, gold, and timber?
Year they were annexed
What is 1845?
States in the Oregon Territory
What is Oregon, Idaho, Washington?
Abolitionist
What is people who believed slavery should be outlawed?
Adams Onis Treaty
What is the treaty where the US acquired Florida from Spain?
The Longest Trail (either Oregon or Santa Fe Trail)
What is the Oregon Trail?
The general who led Texas to freedom from Mexico
What is Sam Houston?
States in the Northwest Territory
What is Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois?
Petition
What is made a formal or written request?
Gadsen Purchase
What is the purchase of land from Mexico in Arizona and New Mexico where the US built a transcontinental railroad?
Cause of the Mexican American War
What is a dispute regarding the southern border of Mexico? (US claimed that it was the Rio Grande, Mexico disagreed)
The most well known battle for Texas Independence
What is the Battle of the Alamo?
States involved in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
What is California, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, Nevada?
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
What is the treaty that ended the Mexican-American War? What is the treaty where the US received 55% of Mexico's territory for 15 million dollars?
Battle where Texans took and secured a cannon from the Mexican government
What is The Battle of Gonzales?
Reason that the US was hesitant to let Texas join
What is their overcoming of Mexico and a disruption of slave and free states?
The one state that was Indian Territory
What is Oklahoma?
Mexican Cession
What is the land that the US purchased from Mexico after the conclusion of the Mexican American War?
Convention of 1818
What is agreement between Great Britain and the US where they agreed to share control of the land in the Oregon Territory?
Wilmont Proviso
What is the proposal to ban slavery in territory acquired in the Mexican American War?