Vocabulary
Huge Properties
Ranchos
Polk's principal opponent; did not take a strong position on the Oregon issue
Henry Clay
a vast region sandwiched between the Texas and California territories
New Mexico
a strip of land along the southern edge of the present-day states of Arizona and New Mexico
Gadsden Purchase
What happened at the Alamo
Almost all of Texans died
What are new communities that emerged overnight in the western lands
Boomtowns
received the Democratic Party's nomination for president, partly because he supported American claims for sole ownership of Oregon. He campaigned using the slogan "Fifty-four Forty or Fight."
James K. Polk
in 1610 the Spanish founded this settlement
Santa Fe
signed in February 1848; Mexico gave up all claims to Texas and agreed to the Rio Grande as the border between Texas and Mexico
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
US general captured Mexico City
Winfield Scott
rendezous
from Tennessee; won notice for his frontier skills, his sense of humor, and the shrewd common sense he often displayed in politics
Davy Crockett
Mexico claimed that this river should be the border
Nueces River
in this treaty the Spanish agreed to set the limits of their territory at what is now California's northern border and gave up any claim to Oregon
Adam-Onis Treaty
What state did the Oregon Trail start in
Missouri
The belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable
Manifest Destiny
asked the Mexican government to confirm his father's land grant; recruited 300 American families to settle the fertile land along the Brazos River and the Colorado River of Texas
Stephen F. Austin
the huge area that lay between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains north of California
Oregon County
a nearby mission of San Antonio; Mexican victory on March 6, 1836. Almost all Texas die.
The Alamo
marched his soldiers across the disputed borderland between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande
General Zachary Taylor
canvas-covered wagons
prairie schooners
marched his soldiers across the disputed borderland between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande
General Zachary Taylor
Russia had settlements that stretched south from this present-day state
those who arrived in 1849 to California in search of gold. James Marshall found gold in 1848
Forty-Niners
Who was the first person to find gold, what state was he in, and what year did it happen?
James Marshall, California, 1948