Oregon Territory
This line on a map was agreed upon as the northern American border and British-owned Canada.
What is the 49th Parallel?
This animal was trapped by the mountain men.
What is beaver?
They trapped or served to help other find their way west.
Who are mountain men?
Their constitution would allow this in the state, but not all states.
What is slavery?
To live in Texas, Americans were to convert to this religion.
What is Catholic?
This country controlled California and lay claim to the Oregon Country as well.
What is Spain?
Made from pelts purchased from mountain men, this was the fashion statement in Europe, which showed one's wealth and social standing.
What is a beaver hat?
The philosophy that it was America's right to expand across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The constitution gave Florida a governor for this many years before re-election.
What is 4?
The language required in Texas after the Mexican Revolution.
What is Spanish?
This country controlled Canada and made a deal for their southern border with the U.S.
What is Great Britain?
Once the trapping became slow, mountain men became these instead.
What are guides?
A person who leaves a place to move to a new place, usually another country.
What is an emigrant?
This was in Florida's constitution, which helped children.
What are public schools?
The name for Americans settling in Texas.
What are Texians?
This country controlled present day Alaska and the islands along the Pacific coast, but also lay claim to the Oregon Country.
What is Russia?
One of the two most famous mountain men.
Who is Jim Bridger/Kit Carson?
This phrase allowed both British and American settlers the ability to live in the disputed northern area of the Oregon Country.
What is joint occupation?
Besides the governor, this ruling body was part of the original constitution.
What was the General Assembly?
The name for native born Mexicans living in Texas.
What are Tejanos?
The name of the agreement between Great Britain and the U.S. that set the boundary between Canada and America.
What is the Adams-Onis Treaty?
The owner of the American Fur Company, he was one of the wealthiest men in America at this time period.
Who was John Jacob Astor?
The name given to the wagon that carried supplies west on the Oregon Trail.
What is a prairie schooner?
The state that was admitted to the Union as a free state about the same time as Florida was admitted.
What is Iowa?
The first American settler who brought a group of 300 to settle Texas.
Who is Stephen F. Austin?