Timeline
When was the Oregon Trail?
1811 - 1840
What did the Gold Rush take place in?
California
What is the definition of Manifest Destiny?
The belief that is was America's right to expand the country from the East to the West.
Why did the U.S Army get involved with the Navajo nation?
The Navajo were attacking settlers trying to come and take their land
When did California become a state?
1850
What year was the battle of the Alamo?
1836
What countries did people come from for the Gold Rush?
When were they treated well? When were they treated poorly?
Countries in Asia (Japan, China and Korea)
While there was plenty of gold, they were treated well.
When the Gold ran out, they were blamed and isolated.
Where was the main "jumping off" point for the Oregon Trail?
Independence, Missouri
How many Navajo were moved to Fort Sumner?
BONUS 100 POINTS: How many years did it take to move all of those people?
About 10,000 Navajo
2 years
When did the Gadsden Purchase take place?
1853
What year did Texas become a U.S State?
1845
Who were the nativists? What was their nickname?
BONUS 150 points: What does W.A.S.P stand for?
They were a political party who believed that only white Americans from western Europe deserved to be Americans. Nickname: Know-Nothings
White Anglo-Saxon Protestants
What was the Gadsden Purchase?
U.S paid Mexico $10 Million for a strip of land south of New Mexico.
Who was Texas fighting for Independence from?
BONUS 100 POINTS: Who was the main general of that countries Army?
Mexico
Santa Anna
What year did the Union Pacific begin to be built?
1863
What year was the Oregon Treaty signed?
1846
What were the two main railroad companies called?
BONUS 100 POINTS: Which one went West and which one went East?
Union and Pacific
Union went West, Pacific went East
Who was the Oregon Treaty an agreement between?
BONUS 200 POINTS: What did the U.S gain from the Oregon Treaty?
U.S gained Oregon as a territory, established the 49th parallel as the border between U.S and Great Britain (Canada)
Name at least two battles that the Texans lost in their fight for Independence.
BONUS: Name the battle they won, they gave them Independence
Goliad, Alamo
San Jacinto
What years were the Long Walk of the Navajo?
1864 - 1866
When did the Gold Rush begin?
1848
What were some of the hardships that people faced on the railroad? Name 3.
BONUS 200 POINTS: Name 3 different groups of people that worked on the railroads
Italians, Irish, Civil War Veterans, Freed slaves
Why was the U.S hesitant to make Texas a State?
Northern states did not want Texas because then the amount of freed and slaved States would be uneven.
Who was fighting the Mexican-American War?
BONUS 100 POINTS: What was the Treaty of Guadalupe - Hidalgo?
BONUS 100 POINTS: Why were they fighting? How long did it last?
U.S v. Mexico
Ended the Mexican American War
Answers many vary | 2 years
BONUS: DOUBLE JEOPARDY
How many years was Texas an independent nation?
9 Years