Western Pioneers
Hispanic Southwest
Independence for Texas
The war with Mexico
100
This settler trail ranged from Independence, Missouri to Fort Hall, Idaho
What is What is the Oregon Trail?
100
What is a major trade route that connected Santa Fe with Missouri?
What is the Santa Fe Trail.
100
Stephen F. Austin had brought this many american families to texas to settle there
What is 300 families
100
The dispute over Texas between the United States and Mexico began in 1803, when the United States claimed Texas as part of the Louisiana Purchase______________ ended that claim
What is the Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819?
200
Who are the Mormons?
This religious group escaped persecution in the East and traveled to Utah, or as they called it, “Deseret”
200
Some of the middle class worked as vaqueros also known as what?
What is cowboys
200
This person was an american empresario also known as the father of texas
What is Stephen Austin
200
Polk took a strong stance on what came to be known as_________________. Despite British claims to Oregon, which had been established in the Convention of 1818, Polk and the Democrats held that the United States had a “clear and unquestionable” right to all of the Oregon Country.
What is the Oregon Question?
300
This treaty was signed in 1851, hoping it would ensure peace between the United States government and the Native Americans
What is the Treaty of Fort Laramie?
300
Why did the governor of California grant John Sutter 50,000 acres in Sacramento Valley?
What is to attract more settlers.
300
This battle has been one of the worst battles during the texas revoultion, massacred the mexicans
What is the battle at the alamo
300
After the fall of Mexico City, Mexico’s leaders could no longer hold out. On February 2, 1848, Mexican leaders signed the____________
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
400
What is the Preemption Act?
What is This law protected squatters by guaranteeing them the right to claim land before it was surveyed
400
What was the highest social class in Californian Society?
What is rancheros or ranchers
400
This battle had begun the texas revolution
What is the battle of San Jacinto
400
Colonel Stephen W. Kearny led troops from Fort Leavenworth, west of Missouri, toward _____________ The march through the dry countryside was brutal, but when Kearny’s men reached the city in August, the Mexican force there had already fled.
What is Santa Fe
500
Who is John Louis O’Sullivan
What is This magazine editor declared it was “manifest destiny” of Americans to “overspread the continent allotted by Providence
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