Oregon Country Vocabulary
Texas Independence Vocabulary
California Gold Rush Vocabulary
Oregon Country/Texas Independence
California Gold Rush
100
A fronteirsman living in the mountain wilderness.
What is mountain men?
100
To set up.
What is establish?
100
Gold seekers.
What is forty-niners?
100
The state the Oregon Trail originated in.
What is Missouri?
100
The year California wrote a constitution and applied for statehood.
What is 1850?
200
A meeting.
What is rendezvous?
200
An order given by one in authority.
What is a decree?
200
Gold Rush communities.
What is boomtowns?
200
The first Americans to reach the Oregon Country.
Who were fur traders?
200
Leader of the Mormons after Joseph Smith died.
Who is Brigham Young?
300
The ability to get to.
What is access?
300
A Mexican who claims Texas as his home.
What is a Tejano?
300
Sold denim pants to miners.
Who is Levi Strauss?
300
Democratic slogan referring to the line of latitude they believed should be the northern border of Oregon.
What is "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight?"
300
The largest single migration in American history.
What is the Mormon migration.
400
The possession and settling of an area shared by two or more countries.
What is joint occupation?
400
A person who arranged for the settlement of land in Texas during the 1800's.
What is an Empresario?
400
Members of vigilance committees for security.
Who were vigilantes?
400
The Native American people Dr. Marcus Whitman built a mission among.
Who were the Cayuse?
400
Where Joseph Smith said he received the ideas for The Book of Mormon.
What is an angel?
500
A person who leaves a country or region to live elsewhere.
What is an emigrant?
500
The Mission where a battle occurred between the Mexican army and the Texans barricaded inside.
What is the Alamo?
500
Religious group who settled near the Great Salt Lake in Utah.
Who are the Mormons?
500
The three countries the United States had to negotiate with in order to gain rights to the Oregon country.
What are Great Britain, Spain, and Russia?
500
Established a group of reviewers who examined the Californio's land rights.
What is the Land Law of 1851?
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