Land Ordinances
What did the Land Ordinance of 1785 do?
What is an agreement to divide the western lands among the states
What is a confederation?
What is an an alliance
Seeking to improve its economy and protect its northern territory, Mexico offered what to anyone bringing settlers to Texas?
What is land grants
Who were the empresarios of Texas?
What is land agents
Where did the Mormons eventually settle?
What is Utah
What was the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
What is established procedures for western lands to become territories, and eventually states
What did John Quincy Adams do?
What is he helped to expand U.S. territory to include Florida.
Who led the first of several groups of American settlers to a fertile area between the Brazos and Colorado Rivers?
What is Stephen F. Austin
What caused delays in the annexation of Texas
What is the balance of free and slave states
What was the name of a man killed by an anti-Mormon mob in 1844?
What is Joseph Smith
What was the Missouri Compromise?
What is maintained the balance of free states and slave states.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
What is the warning of European powers not to interfere with the affairs of the Western Hemisisphere
The main appeal Texas held for American settlers was
What is cheap land
Who became president of he Republic of Texas?
What is Sam Houston
Which group played a major role in settling of the American West?
What is the Mormons
The final boarder of the lower 48 states was established where?
What is the Gadsden Purchase
What is nationalism
What is a belief in placing national interests above regional concerns
Who was most in favor of seizing land from Mexico?
What is James Polk
What dissolved whenTexas became the Twenty-eighth state in the Union?
What is the Republic of Texas
Where did the battle that gave Texas its freedom from Mexico take place?
What is near the San Jacinto River