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Vocab
Post War
The Gold Rush/ Mis
100
The belief that America had a God-given right to expand the country's borders from 'sea to shining sea'
What is Manifest Destiny
100
Who was the President of Mexico during this time?
Who is Antonio López de Santa Anna
100

Define the term Texas Revolution

The 1836 rebellion in which Texas gained its independence from Mexico.



100
What land did the United States add to their territory after the war?
What is Texas, California, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Colorado
100

What is the name of the river divides Texas from Mexico?

What is the Rio Grande

200
Who was the President who pushed for the expansion of the United States?
Who is President James K. Polk
200
Who was the president of the United States during the Mexican American War?
Who is James K. Polk
200

A mission and fort in San Antonio, Texas, where Mexican forces massacred rebellious Texans in 1836.



What is the Alamo

200
What treaty was signed on February 2, 1848 that declared Mexico's surrender and land to the United States for $15 million?
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
200

Nevada gold and silver mine discovered by Henry Comstock in 1859.


What is Comstock Lode

300
What occurred in December 1845 that increased the United States territory?
What is the United States annexation of Texas
300

What is a squatter?

a person who settles on land that they do not own.

300

 A gift of public land to an individual or organization.



What is a land grant?

300
In what month of 1848 does the Mexican Congress ratify the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
What is May
300

method of mining that uses water under high pressure to blast away gravel and dirt to expose the mineral underneath.

What is Hydraulic mining

400
Who was sent to negotiate a settlement between Mexico and the United States after the admission of Texas into the Union?
Who is John Slidell
400
Who is the General who commanded the Northern Campaign in the war?
Who is Zachary Taylor
400

The Treaty requiring the Sioux tribe to live on a reservation along the Missouri River






What is the Treaty of Laramie

400
What purchase was made by the United States that gave the United States the strip of land that makes up Southern Arizona and New Mexico
What is the Gadsden Purchase
400

involved digging tunnels along the veins of gold and breaking up tons of ore—hard and dangerous work.

What is Hard Rock Mining

500

What two Texas rivers were the center of the debate between Mexico and the United States

What is the Nieces and the Rio Grande

500
Who was a Second Lieutenant in the war that was opposed of the war and believed it was "one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation"
Who is Ulysses S. Grant
500
A route from independence , Missouri to Santa Fe used by traders in the early mid 1800s?



What is the Santa Fe Trail?

500

Between 1848 and 1853 how much money did the United States pay to Mexico for land?

What is $25 million

500

The major cattle route from San Antonio, Texas, through Oklahoma to Kansas.


Chisholm Trail

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