What is the name of the mass movement of American Indians from their homes in the Eastern US to Oklahoma in the West?
Trail of Tears
100
The name of the treaty that ended the Mexican-American War
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo.
100
The name of the river that Texas thought was the border with the Mexico.
Rio Grande
100
When a country adds a piece of land from another country
Annex
100
What happened to most of Mexico's land after the Mexican-American War?
It was given to the United States.
200
What is the law that forced American Indians off of their land in the East?
Indian Removal Act
200
The belief that the United States had the right to takeover all of the land to the Pacific Ocean because God told them to do it.
Manifest Destiny
200
How were Mexicans treated after the Mexican-American War?
They were denied their rights.
200
Something that is not allowed by the law
Illegal
300
Who is the President who hated American Indians and signed the Indian Removal Act?
Andrew Jackson
300
The President of the United States who believed strongly in Manifest Destiny
James K. Polk
300
The practice of using water to help farm
Irrigated farming
300
A white person in the United States
Anglo-Saxon
300
A summary that does not have your opinion
Objective
400
What is one result of the Indian Removal Act/Trail of Tears?
Many American Indians died
American Indians lost their land
400
The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo allowed Mexicans in the new US land to:
a. lose their citizenship
b. move to Mexico
c. become US citizens
d. takeover land that had been owned by Americans.
C
400
The year when Texas won its independence from Mexico.
1836
400
To get over or solve a problem
Reconciliation
400
This general was in charge of the US army during the Mexican-American War. He was hated by many Mexicans and some Americans.
Zachary Taylor
500
What happened to the American Indian land in the Eastern United States?
It was taken over by American settlers.
500
The name of the purchase of land from Mexico a few years after the Mexican-American War