US-Mexican War
Tales From The West
Expansion
Gold!
100
The president who pushed for war with Mexico.
Who is James K. Polk?
100
The name of the first American who led American settlers into the Mexican controlled territory of Texas.
Who is Stephen F. Austin?
100
The name for Texas when it was a country.
What is the Lone Star Republic?
100
The name for those who came to California in search of gold.
Who are forty-niners?
200
The river in Texas that the US claimed was the border between the United States and Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande?
200
The states that were added to the US from the Mexican Cession.
What are California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming?
200
The area gained from the Adams-Onis Treaty.
What is Florida?
200
The immigrant group that eventually left the gold mines and started businesses in California.
Who are the Chinese?
300

What was the name of the short-lived republic declared by American settlers in Sonoma in 1846?

California republic or bear flag republic

300

This religious group was forced West by persecution.

The Mormons

300
The land annexed after about 10 years of being a new nation.
What is Texas?
300
The 19th Century American term that stated it was obvious fate to occupy & bring democracy across the North American continent.
What is "Manifest Destiny?"
400
The document that signaled the end of the Mexican War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
400
The territory that set the US border at the 49°N parallel.
What is Oregon?
400
A long-term effect of the gold rush on the Natives in California.
What is a drastic decrease in the Native American population?
500

The idea that people of federal territories should decide for themselves whether their territories would enter the Union as free or slave states.  

Popular sovereignty

500
The starting point for the Oregon Trail and the Santa Fe Trail.
Where was (Independence), Missouri?
500
The country from whom the US negotiated the Gadsden Purchase.
Who is Mexico?
500

People who came a year after the gold rush began were referred to by this term.

49ers

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