Phrases & Trails
Sam Houston used it as a battle cry.
What is "Remember the Alamo!"
He led a rebellion against U.S. expansion; lost & was forcibly removed.
Who is Black Hawk?
This is how the war with Mexico began.
What is a border dispute?
The group of people who played the largest role in the settling of the American West.
Who are the Mormons?
It was one of the most famous losses of the Texas Revolution.
What is the Battle of the Alamo?
Term for the belief it was a God-given right for U.S. to expand across N. America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Leader of the Tejano forces who used "Remember the Alamo" as a battle cry.
Who is Sam Houston?
The president of Mexico who also fought in the U.S. Mexican war.
Who is Santa Anna?
He explored California and described it as perfect.
Who is John Fremont?
This present-day state was not ceded to the U.S. in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
What is Texas?
This trail took 4 to 6 months to travel.
What is the Oregon Trail?
He led 20,000 Mormons west to continue their religion.
Who is Brigham Young?
He was a general in the U.S. Mexican War & became president of the U.S. after the war.
Who is Zachary Taylor?
He was the frontiersman & former congressman killed in the Texas Revolution.
Who is David Crockett?
This treaty gave Native Americans control of land in the Great Plains west of the Mississippi.
What is the Treaty of Fort Laramie?
This trail west was used for trading with Mexico.
What is the Santa Fe trail?
He coined the phrase Manifest Destiny.
Who is John O'Sullivan?
It was Mexico's main attraction to Texas for American settlers.
What is cheap land?
It was the name for the white settlers in Texas.
What are Anglos?
It was the treaty where Mexico gave up Texas, Rio Grande border, New Mexico, & California.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This purchase established the final borders of the lower 48 states.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
He led the first organized group of Americans to settle Texas in 1822.
Who is Stephen Austin?
It was where the influential battle that won Texas its freedom from Mexico was fought.
What is near the Jacinto River?
The U.S. President who pushed for American expansion into the west.
Who is James Polk?
The Treaty between U.S. & Great Britain that divided the Oregon territory along the 49th parallel.
What is the Treaty of 1846?