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They rushed to California in search of gold.
What are the forty-niners?
100
Mexico forbade any more Americans to move to Texas because of this.
What is Americans wanting to make Texas part of the United States?
100
Native Americans in California were forced to do this at missions.
What is work for the Catholic missions.
100
The entire Southwest belonged to Mexico in the 1840s. This huge region was known as this.
What is New Mexico Territory?
100
Nickname the Texans gave their new nation after they won independence.
What is the Lone Star Republic?
200
They punished criminals although they had no legal powers.
What are vigilantes?
200
He founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Who is Joseph Smith?
200
To stop lawlessness, Californians decided to do this.
What is write a constitution and create a government?
200
The chief missionary who built his first mission at San Diego.
Who is Fr. Junipero Serra?
200
Mexicans who lived in Texas.
What are Tejanos?
300
Mountain men went to the West in search of this.
What are furs?
300
These countries claimed Oregon in the early 1800s.
What are Great Britain, Russia, Spain, and the United States?
300
The United States should expand to the Pacific is the definition of this.
What is Manifest Destiny?
300
He was elected president in 1844 because he favored expansion of the United States.
Who is James Polk?
300
General who came to power in Mexico in 1833.
Who is Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna?
400
Mexico encouraged Americans to settle in Texas because they wanted this.
What is hoping Americans would develop the land?
400
Good opportunities for trade attracted Americans to this place.
What is Santa Fe, New Mexico?
400
This man lead the Mormons after Joseph Smith was murdered in St. Joseph, Mo.
Who is Brigham Young?
400
"Fifty-four forty or fight" referred to the Democrats' desire to add this to the United States.
What is Oregon?
400
A French word meaning get-together was an annual meeting of mountain men and fur traders.
What is rendezvous?
500
One of the first missionaries to reach Oregon.
Who is Narcissa Whitman?
500
This agreement gave the United States a strip of land that completed its expansion across the continent.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
500
The place in California where gold was discovered in 1848.
What is Sutter's Mill?
500
First president of the Republic of Texas.
Who is Sam Houston?
500
The African American mountain man who left Virginia to escape slavery discovered a pass through the Sierra Nevadas.
Who is James Beckwourth?
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