People
The 11th president of the United States, serving from 1845 to 1849. Also oversaw a large westward expansion of the United States.
James K. Polk
A community during the California Gold Rush that undergoes sudden and rapid population and economic growth, or that is started from scratch.
Boomtown
This trail stretched for about 2,000 miles (3,200 km), and flourished as the main means for hundreds of thousands of emigrants to reach the Northwest from the early 1840s through the 1860s.
Oregon Trail
Served as the first and third president of the Republic of Texas and was one of the first two individuals to represent Texas in the United States Senate. A major Texas city is also named after him.
Sam Houston
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Led the Mormons to Utah, and colonized and governed the territory that served as their homeland. Also, has a university named after him.
Brigham Young
This group of people arrived in covered wagons, clipper ships, steamships, and on horseback, some 300,000 migrants. They staked claims to spots of land around the river, where they used pans to extract gold from silt deposits. It is also a football team.
49ers
What is the slogan used by James K. Polk when he ran for president in 1844 regarding the Oregon Territory?
This is not a specific person, but rather a word for a person that purchased large land grants from Mexico.
Empresario
What is his favorite class to teach?
US history I
An American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier, and politician. He is commonly referred to in popular culture by the epithet "King of the Wild Frontier". He represented Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives, served in the Texas Revolution, and died in the Alamo.
This treaty brought an official end to the Mexican-American War and was signed on February 2, 1848.
The Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo
A passageway used regularly after 1821 by merchant traders from Missouri who took manufactured goods to the southwest to exchange for furs and other items available there. The primary purpose of the trail was for trading.
Santa Fe Trail
A war between Texas settlers and Mexico from 1835-1836 resulted in the formation of this Republic. (Present-day Texas)
Lone Star Republic
American prophet, and founder of the Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints.
Joseph Smith
An American explorer, politician, and soldier. Through his explorations in the West, he stimulated the American desire to own that region. His nickname was the Pathfinder and helped establish a key state in the west.
John Fremont
An unrecognized breakaway state from Mexico, which was a place that many Americans traveled to 1849 and it was quickly inhabited by thousands of Americans. Name the republic.
Bear Flag Republic
Known as the "Father of Texas". Successfully colonized the territory, bringing over 300 families.
Stephen Austin
An American columnist and editor who coined the term "manifest destiny" in 1845 to promote the annexation of Texas and the Oregon Country to the United States.
John O'Sullivan
Roughly 30,000 square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was acquired by the United States to build a railroad in a treaty signed on December 30, 1853.
The 1,300-mile-long route from Illinois to Utah that members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints traveled for 3 months
Mormon Migration/Trail
Name two causes to the Texas Revolution:
Religion, Tariff, Slavery, Language, Petition for self government
What sports did Mr. Collis play in high school?
Basketball and Baseball