He surprised the Mexican army and won the battle of San Jacinto in less than 20 minutes.
Who is Sam Houston?
100
It allowed slavery and many people in the United States were opposed to bringing another slave state into the Union.
Why did Texas have to wait nine years to join the United States?
100
The Texans fought a brave, glorious, losing battle to the death.
Why do we remember the Alamo?
100
The belief that the expanding their country's boundaries would be "extending the area of freedom" and bringing the blessings of liberty to the people who would live there.
What is Manifest Destiny?
200
They wanted more land.
Why did settlers keep moving west?
200
She let Lewis and Clark's expedition up the Missouri River.
Who is Sacajawea?
200
Americans wanted it for the fur of its animals.
What is Oregon?
200
They didn't become Catholic, give up their slaves, or become Mexican citizens.
Why did the Mexican government fight the Texan settlers?
200
He believed in civil disobedience and refused to pay his taxes in protest of the war.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
300
He cleared a path through the Cumberland Gap in the Appalachian Mountains, the Wilderness Road, and made travel to the west easier.
Who is Daniel Boone?
300
He wrote an alphabet for his people that had 86 syllables.
Who is Sequoyah?
300
The two countries compromised and divided the land at 49 degrees latitude.
How did the British and English resolve their territory dispute?
300
Because the settlers were taking their land.
Why did the Native Americans resent the white settlers?
300
Meriweather Lewis and William Clark
Who explored the Louisiana Territory and reported back to President Jefferson?
400
It turned New York into a major trading city, shipping goods from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Erie Canal?
400
He tried to convince the Indian nations to join together to fight against white settlers.
Who is Tecumseh?
400
Mormons
Who settled Utah and Idaho?
400
He sent an army to remove the Cherokees.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
400
Merchants
Who became rich in California?
500
They allowed year-round travel, faster journeys, and could go over mountains.
What are railroads?
500
He declared war against Mexico.
Who is James Polk?
500
California and New Mexico
What two states did Polk want to buy from Mexico?
500
It said the treaty with the Cherokees was legal and agreed that the land belonged to the Cherokee.