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Mexicans who claimed Texas as their home
Tejanos
The president that is responsible for adding Oregon Country (officially), Texas, California, Nevada, Utah, parts of New Mexico and Arizona (territories, not states), and he did all of this in one term.
James K. Polk
Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Mormons
Where people gathered to begin their journey on the Oregon Trail: St. Joseph and Independence, Missouri
Jumping-Off points
Communities that were built rapidly to accommodate the mass migration west that was caused by the California Gold Rush
Boomtowns
A battle between Texans who had 150 people barricaded in a mission and the Spanish who had thousands of soldiers, yet the Texans held them off for a while, but eventually lost.
The Alamo
Excitement about migrating Westward into Oregon Country, and it resulted in a population increase in that territory from 500 people to 5,000 within five years.
Oregon Fever
Resulted in the agreement that any state above the 36* 30 line woiuld be a free state in the hopes of maintaining a blalance of power, and it made Missouri a slave state and Maine a free state.
Missouri Compromise
The territory that made up what is now Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and parts of Montana and Canada
Oregon Country
The boundary line that the U.S. and Britain agreed upon to officially separate the territories
49th Parallel
The path that people travelled to go from the jumping off points to Oregon County, it was 2,000 miles and took anywhere from 6 months to a year to travel
Oregon Trail
To formally add a territory, for example, when the U.S. annexed Texas, it became a U.S. territory
Annex
The slogan Polk used to get elected suggesting he would go to war with Britan
Fifty-Four Forty or Fight
In 1819, the U.S. gave up all claims to Texas, and Spain gave up all claims to Oregon Country
Adams-Onis Treaty
Polk went to war with Mexico for the acquisition of more land, and the war ended with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Mexican-American War
Mexico gave up all claims to Texas, agreed to the Rio Grande to the Rio Grande as the border, and they gave up California, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona and Nevada for $15 million
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The belief that Americans have the God-given right to expand Westward
Manifest Destiny
During this time period, Mormons were attacked because of their religion and led a mass migration to the Salt Lake area in Utah to seek refuge.
Religious Persecution
This gave Texas its independence from Mexico, and would later allow the United States to annex them to join the U.S.
Texas Revolution
Five years after the Treaty of Guadlupe Hidalgo, the U.S. brought a small piece of land from Mexico that made up parts of the Southern borders of Arizona and New Mexico for $10 million
Gadsen Purchase
A rich American from Missouri who applied for and received a land grant for territory in Texas, but he died before the paperwork made it official
Moses Austin
Crime increases substantially when nearly 1000,000 people from all over the world went to California.
California Gold Rush
Organized for 300 families to settle along the Brazos and Colorado River within Texas
Stepen Austin
A vast region sandwiched between California and Texas, including present day New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and parts of Colorado and Utah
New Mexico Territory
The President of Mexico who was elected in 1830, who would eventually become a dictator
General Antionio Lopez de Santa Anna