The Western Pioneers
Miscellaneous
Independence for Texas
The War With Mexico
Vocabulary
100
This settler trail ranged from Independence, Missouri to Fort Hall, Idaho.
What is the Oregon Trail?
100
What is a major trade route that connected Santa Fe with Missouri?
What is the Santa Fe Trail
100
This person was an american empresario also known as the father of texas
Who is Stephen Austin
100
Mexico believed that Texas’s southwestern border was the Nueces River, while the US claimed it was
What is the Rio Grande River
100
People who settle on land that is not their own.
What are squatters?
200
This religious group escaped persecution in the East and traveled to Utah, or as they called it, “Deseret”.
Who are the Mormons?
200
Some of the middle class worked as vaqueros also known as what?
What is cowboys
200
this person convinced american families to go to texas to colonize.
Who is Stephen Austin
200
Polk took a strong stance on what came to be known as_________________. Despite British claims to Oregon, which had been established in the Convention of 1818, Polk and the Democrats held that the United States had a “clear and unquestionable” right to all of the Oregon Country.
What is the Oregon Question
200
The incorporation of a territory within the domain of a country.
What is annexation?
300
This treaty was signed in 1851, hoping it would ensure peace between the United States government and the Native Americans.
What is the Treaty of Fort Laramie?
300
What was the highest social class in Californian Society?
What is Rancheros or Ranchers
300
this many families came to Texas at first to settle.
what is 300 families
300
After the fall of Mexico City, Mexico’s leaders could no longer hold out. On February 2, 1848, Mexican leaders signed the
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
300
This Spanish word means "agents" or "contractors".
What is empresario?
400
This law protected squatters by guaranteeing them the right to claim land before it was surveyed.
What is the Preemption Act?
400
The governor of California gave this man 50,000 acres in the Sacramento Valley
Who is John Sutter
400
This battle had begun the texas revolution
What is the battle of San Jacinto
400
Colonel Stephen W. Kearny led troops from Fort Leavenworth, west of Missouri, toward _____________ The march through the dry countryside was brutal, but when Kearny’s men reached the city in August, the Mexican force there had already fled.
What is Santa Fe
400
This word means to transfer from religious control.
What is secularize?
500
This magazine editor declared it was “manifest destiny” of Americans to “overspread the continent allotted by Providence”.
Who is John Louis O’Sullivan?
500
Who was at the bottom of the social classes in Californian Soicety
Who is Native Americans.
500
this person was the first president of texas
Who is Sam Houston
500
The dispute over Texas between the United States and Mexico began in 1803, when the United States claimed Texas as part of the Louisiana Purchase,______________ ended that claim
What is the Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819
500
This word means a representative.
What is envoy?
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