The Market Revolution
Invented the electromagnetic telegraph
Who is Samuel F.B. Morse?
The idea that the movement westward was destined or ordained by God
What is the Manifest Destiny?
These people were also known as land agents
What are empresarios?
Place where the gold rush occurred
What is California?
Inventor of the mechanical reaper
Cyrus McCormick
The routes used for trade and migration
What is the Santa Fe and Oregon Trail?
Money that was given to land agents to form settlements to attract American settlers
What are land grants?
Price the U.S. paid for Mexico's cession
What is $15 million?
The first invention by John Deere
What is the steel plow?
Joseph Smith's successor, lead the Mormons outside U.S. to settle near Great Salt Lake, Utah.
Who is Brigham Young?
An abandoned mission where Santa Anna killed 187 U.S. soldiers
What is the Alamo?
Winner of the presidential election of 1844
Who is James K. Polk?
Term that referred to only growing one or two specific cash crops
What is specialization?
The slogan referred to the latitude 54 40', the northern limit of the disputed Oregon Territory.
What is "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!"?
The president of Mexico in 1833
Prohibited slavery in all lands received from Mexico
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
The fastest method of transportation
What is trains/ railroad?
Group who moved west for religious freedom
What are Mormons?
The final battle that was mostly responsible for winning Texas from Mexico
What is the San Jacinto?
State that had a flag with a grizzly bear
What is California?