Who were Fur traders and trappers who worked for John Jacob Astor.
Who were mountain men?
100
What are empresarios?
What are agents hired by the government to bring settlers to Texas
100
Who were vaqueros?
Who were cowboys who managed the large herds of cattle and sheep
200
What is the Oregon Trail
What is the 2000 mile long trail that stretched from Independence, Missouri, Council Bluffs, Iowa, west into Oregon Country?
200
Who was Father Miquel Hidalgo y Costilla?
Who was a Mexican priest that led a rebellion of about 80,000 poor Indians and mestizos.
200
What was the act when the Americans declared California to be an independent nation?
What was the Bear Flab Revolt?
300
What is the Santa Fe Trail?
What is a trail that led from Independence, Missouri, to Santa Fe, New Mexico
300
Who was Stephen F. Austin?
Who was a young agent who started a colony on the lower Colorado River
300
What was the treaty between the United States and Mexico, which officially ended the war and forced Mexico to turn over much of its Northern Territory to the United States?
What was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
400
Who were Mormons?
Who are the members of Joseph Smith's church
400
What was the Alamo?
What was an abandoned mission near San Antonio that became an important battle sit in the Texas Revolution
400
Who were Californios?
Who were colonists that felt little connection to their faraway government?
500
Who was Brigham Young?
Who is the head of the Mormon Church after Joseph Smith was murdered
500
What was the Battle of San Jacinto?
What was the battle when the Texans captured Santa Anna and forced him to sign a treaty giving Texas its independence
500
What was America's manifest destiny?
What was the obvious fate, to settle land all the way to the Pacific Ocean in order to spread democracy?