Causes
The belief that America had a God-given right to expand the country's borders from 'sea to shining sea'.
What is Manifest Destiny?
He was the Mexican general present at the battle of the Alamo.
Who is General Antonio López de Santa Anna?
Before joining the Union as a state, Texas was called this.
What is the Lone Star Republic?
Date Florida became a state.
What is March 3, 1845?
What is the name of the river that divides Texas from Mexico?
What is the Rio Grande?
Who was the President who pushed for the expansion of the United States?
Who is President James K. Polk?
He was the vice president of the Lone Star Republic.
Who is Mirabeau Lamar?
Representatives from Texas asked the U.S. government to do this, to help Texas join the Union.
What is annex Texas from Mexico?
This city became the territorial capital of Florida in 1824.
What is Tallahassee?
Mexicans who claimed Texas as their home.
What are Tejanos?
What occurred in December 1845 that increased the United States territory?
What is the United States annexation of Texas?
He was the commander of Texan forces at the battle of the Alamo.
Who is William Barret Travis?
He was the first President of Texas.
Who was Sam Houston?
Location of Florida's first constitutional convention.
What was St. Joseph?
This country owned Florida before transferring it to the United States.
What is Spain?
Texan leaders met at this town during the battle of the Alamo.
What is Washington-on-the-Brazos?
He is American folk hero who died at the Alamo.
Who is Davy Crockett?
This president refused to annex Texas.
Who was Andrew Jackson?
The potential addition of this free state allowed Florida to also be admitted to the Union.
What is Iowa?
Texas rallying cry resulting from the battle at the Alamo.
What is "Remember the Alamo!"?
The year Mexico won independence from Spain.
What was 1821?
They tried to make peace with Mexico, so Americans could continue settling on Mexican lands.
Who were Sam and Austin Houston?
Texas finally joined the Union in this year.
What is 1845.
He signed the Florida statehood bill.
Who is John Tyler?
The name of the legislation that ensured slave states and free states would remain balanced in Congress.
What is the Missouri Compromise?