Who was the American president during the Mexican-American War?
100
Gadsen Purchase
What is an American purchase from Mexico that was necessary to build the first transcontinental railroad.
100
Treaty of Ft. Laramie
What is an agreement that kept Native Americans away from major routes westward to avoid or minimize conflict with emigrants.
100
American troops at the Rio Grande River
What is a reason that the Mexican American War began
200
Joseph Smith
Who is the founder of the Mormon church that was killed in Nauvoo Illinois.
200
49'ers
What is a large group of Americans who went west to California to seek gold.
200
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
What is the act that ended the Mexican War, dramatically increased the size of the U.S. and indirectly increased tensions between pro and anti-slavery forces.
200
New Zion
What is the name of the Mormon settlement in Utah.
200
California applies for statehood
What is a source of conflict between pro and anti slavery forces in Congress.
300
Stephen F. Austin
What is the individual that led emigrants to settle the farmland of San Antonio Texas
300
Santa Fe Trail
What is a major trail westward from Missouri To New Mexico.
300
Wilmot Proviso
What is a bill that repeatedly tried to outlaw slavery in territories won during the Mexican American War.
300
Pluralism or multiple wives
What is a Mormon belief that caused discrimination and conflict between Mormons and other religions
300
Hydraulic Mining
What is a type of mining that uses larges amounts of water and degrades the environment.
400
Zachary Taylor
What is the American general who won the battle of Buena Vista.
400
Oregon Trail
What is an early route to the Pacific Northwest
400
Manifest Destiny
What is a nationalistic feeling that God ordained Americans to control all land between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
400
Nauvoo
What is the location of a Mormon settlement in Illinois.
400
Mountain men create trails to forts and other locations
What is the beginning of pioneer trails that are used in westward expansion.
500
James K. Polk
What is the expansionist presidential candidate of 1844.
500
Foreign Miners Tax
What is a fee of twenty dollars per month charged to all non American citizens to discourage foreign mining in the U.S.
500
Lone Star Republic
What is the name of the region of Texas when it declared its independence from Mexico.
500
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
What is the official name of the Mormon church
500
Americans surge westward
What creates loss of land for Native Americans, and leads to increased discrimination against foreigners.