This American and about 300 families moved to Texas around 1821.
Who was Steven Austin?
100
This is the AMOUNT of money the U.S. offered Mexico for Texas, California, and New Mexico.
What was $25 million?
100
This event in 1849 brought many settlers to California.
What was the Gold Rush?
100
THIS MAN proposed the Missouri Compromise.
Who was Henry Clay?
100
In 1800, most of the southwest belonged to THIS country.
What was Spain?
200
In 1821, only about 4,000 of THESE PEOPLE lived in Texas.
Who were Tejanos (people of Spanish origin, living in Texas)?
200
The Mexican-American War broke out on THIS RIVER.
What is the Rio Grande?
200
This is the TYPE of state California became (slave or free?).
What is a free state?
200
The Wilmot Proviso proposed outlawing THIS in any territory gained from the Mexican-American War.
What is slavery?
200
In 1821, after Mexico achieved THIS from Spain, the southwest became Mexican, not Spanish.
What is independence?
300
Texas belonged to THIS COUNTRY before the Texas War for Independence.
What is Mexico?
300
When Congress admitted Texas as a state, Mexico still claimed Texas. Mexico saw this as WHAT?
What is an act of war?
300
By 1850, California was able to do THIS.
What is apply for statehood?
300
Under THIS AGREEMENT, California asked to enter the Union as a free state.
What is the Compromise of of 1850?
300
THIS is the YEAR that Mexico gained it's independence from Spain.
When was 1821?
400
When Texas became independent from Mexico, THIS is the NAME they gave themselves.
What was the Lone Star Republic?
400
When Mexico lost the Mexican-American War, THIS MANY Mexicans were suddenly Americans.
What is 80,000?
400
THIS is WHY some southerners wanted to break California into 2 states.
What is so half could be free and half could be slave?
400
Under the Missouri Compromise, slavery was outlawed in the future anywhere north of Missouri's border. The Compromise also admitted THIS STATE as a free state.
Where is Maine?
400
This TREATY ended the Mexican-American War.
What was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
500
This is what Texas ASKED of Mexico. When Mexico refused, war broke out.
What was to be a self-governing state within Mexico?
500
These are TWO of the STATES that Mexico gave up as a result of the Mexican-American War.
What are California, Nevada, Utah, and most of Arizona?
500
Before the Gold Rush of 1849, mostly THESE 2 groups of PEOPLE lived in California.
Who were Native Americans and Californios (people of Spanish or Mexican origin)?
500
THESE are TWO things decided in the Compromise of 1850 (there are three).
What were: California would enter the Union as a free state; Slavery would not be allowed in other territories; and Congress promised there would be stronger fugitive slave laws?
500
Even though Mexico outlawed slavery, THIS is WHY Americans in Texas claimed they still needed it.
What is they claimed they needed slaves to grow cotton?