Vocabulary
This term describes the belief that it was the destiny of the United States to expand its territory from coast to coast.
What is Manifest Destiny?
What year was gold discovered in California?
What is 1848?
Term that describes a person who traveled from Missouri to Oregon.
What is a pioneer?
the agreement that allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
Which state did the US annex that led to war with Mexico?
What is the state of Texas?
This term describes a person who leaves their home country to settle in a new country.
What is an emigrant?
This is the location where the first gold of the California Gold Rush was discovered.
What is Sutter's Mill?
This state served as a major "jumping off" point for folks headed westward.
What is the state of Missouri?
This state entered the Union as a free state as part of the above mentioned compromise.
What is the state of Maine?
How much money did the United States pay Mexico for the territories that it took?
What is 15 million dollars?
This term describes a person of Mexican descent living in Texas.
What is a Tejano?
This man is credited with finding the first gold of the California Gold Rush.
Who is James Marshall?
The length of the Oregon Trail.
What is 2,170 miles?
This treaty between the US and Spain established the western boundary of the US and allowed it to acquire Florida.
What was is the Adams-Onis Treaty?
An agreement signed in 1848 between the United States and Mexico, ending the Mexican-American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This term refers to people who rushed to California in search of gold in 1849.
What is a forty-niner?
This man found success selling sturdy denim jeans to miners during the California Gold Rush.
Who is Levi Strauss?
Amount of time it typically took to travel the Oregon Trail.
What is 4-6 months?
The Missouri Compromise was designed to maintain the balance of what?
An equal number or balance, or free and slave states.
In what year did the US declare war on Mexico?
What is 1846?
A term for the process of incorporating a new territory into an existing country.
What is annex?
In what year was California admitted as the 31st state?
What is 1850?
What was the primary destination for folks traveling along the Oregon trail?
What is Willamette Valley?
The dividing line between free and slave states established in the Missouri Compromise.
What is the 36-30 line?
Which territories did Mexico give up as a result of the Mexican-American War?
What are California, Nevada, Utah, Texas most of Arizona, New Mexico, and parts of Colorado and Wyoming.