Tex-Mex
What country controlled Texas before it became an independent republic?
Mexico
What was the concept of manifest destiny?
The belief that God gave the U.S. the right to possess the whole North American continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
This man was the first president, after being the commander of the patriot armies during the American Revolution.
George Washington
This was the name for the terrible journey undertaken by the Five Civilized Tribes when they were forced to move to "Indian Territory" of Oklahoma after the passage of the Indian Removal Act.
The Trail of Tears
True or False:
Mexico abolished slavery before the United States.
True
Mexico outlawed slavery in 1829, while the US would fight a huge civil war over the issue and wouldn't abolish it until 1865 under Abraham Lincoln.
What does the term abolitionist mean?
An abolitionist is a person who wants to get rid of slavery.
Abolish = get rid of something
This man was president when the US went to war against Mexico in the Mexican -American War from 1846-1848.
James K. Polk
These two were sent by President Thomas Jefferson to explore and map the Louisiana Territory, but they probably wouldn't have been as successful without their Native American guide. Name the two explorers and their guide.
Merriweather Lewis
William Clark
Sacagawea
Why did many Americans oppose US annexation (takeover) of Texas?
Many northern abolitionists did not want to add another slave state to the union since they feared it would tip the Senate in favor of slavery.
What is infrastructure?
Infrastructure is improvements that societies build such as roads, bridges, canals, sewers, TV, radio and cell towers, power plants, train stations and much more.
This president bought the Louisiana Territory from the French in 1803, doubling the size of the United States.
Thomas Jefferson
This law, passed in 1830, gave the president the power to negotiate treaties to move Native American tribes to land west of the Mississippi River.
Indian Removal Act
This 1848 treaty ended the Mexican American War and gave the US the "Mexican Cession" which included California, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona.
The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
What does the term annex mean?
Annex means to take over or add an area.
He was our 2nd president and a strong political leader during the American Revolution. He only served one term (4 years) since he lost to Thomas Jefferson in the election of 1800.
John Adams
Why was the Erie Canal such a big deal when it was completed in 1825, not just for the state of New York, but for the US overall?
The Erie Canal connected lake Erie to the Hudson River (and thus New York City and the Atlantic Ocean), allowing farmers and merchants to get their products to American and overseas markets more cheaply and easily.
American immigrants into Mexico had to promise 3 things in order to settle there. What were they?
They had to become Mexican
They had to become Roman Catholic Christians
They had to give up slavery
What is a treaty?
A treaty is a formal written agreement between two or more nations.
This president is seen as a white supremacist president due to his promotion of white settlement in the southeast US with the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
Andrew Jackson
This term means to adopt or take on the culture and ways of life of a larger group.
Assimilate or Assimilation
The Cherokee and other Indigenous people assimilated into white American society by adopting Christianity, wearing European-American clothes, speaking English and building American style farms.