People
Texas
Manifest Destiny
Pot Luck
Pot Luck II
100
This person engineered the Steel Plow?
What is John Deere
100
What did Texas precede to do after winning their independence?
What is voted for annexation
100
How did the Donner Party survive the Sierra Nevada Mountains?
What is resorted to Cannibalism
100
What other country had staked a claim to the Oregon territory?
What is Great Britain
100
What were the names of the "agents" who were to fill the lands of Texas with settlers.
What is Empresarios
200
This man is credited with coining the term "Manifest Destiny"?
What is John Louis O'Sullivan
200
Why did Mexico officially invite Americans to settle Texas?
What is Mexico couldn't persuade their own people to settle the land because of the Indians.
200
People who headed West in Wagon Trains were called?
What is Overlanders
200
What did "Fifty-four Forty or Fight" mean?
What is This was the wanted border of the Oregon Territory, If they didn't get it they would fight.
200
Why did emigrants go to California and Oregon and not to the lands closer?
What is They thought the land was a wasteland and not inhabitable.
300
Brigham Young is credited with?
What is Moving the Mormon Population to Utah
300
What was the accepted border in the peace treaty that ended the Mexican American War?
What is The Rio Grande River
300
Why were the first western settlers called "Squatters"?
What is They settled on land that is not their own.
300
Why were Mountain Men vital to settling the West?
What is They carved out the East-West Passages for other settlers to follow.
300
What is the term that describes Americans God given right to settle all the Western Land?
What is Manifest Destiny
400
Jim Bridger is considered a what? Someone who carved out passages for setters heading west.
What is a mountain man or overlander
400
What was the Alamo and what was its importance?
What is A Spanish Mission that was fortified, and was a crushing defeat, but a rallying cry for the fight
400
Where did the Mormon population finally end up and why?
What is Utah and Persecution
400
There were three conditions to settling in Mexico, Name them.
What is Had to become a Mexican citizen, Had to follow Mexican Law, Had to convert to Catholicism.
400
This term means to officially allow a new territory in the union.
What is annexation
500
This man is credited with patenting the Mechanical Reaper
What is Cyrus McCormick
500
What was the name of the treaty that ended the Mexican- American War?
What is Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
500
Why were Native Americans scared of the increasing number of settlers out west?
What is It would disrupt their way of life and their livelihood.
500
In the Election of 1844, what did James K. Polk promise?
What is To annex Texas and Oregon, and Buy Cali from Mexico.
500
What does the preemption act of 1830 state?
What is that squatters could buy the land from the government at a cheaper price.
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