Everything is Bigger in Texas
This city was the site where the Texas Revolution began with a Texas victory.
What is Gonzales?
The Mexican-American War was started in this state due to conflicting territorial claims.
What is Texas?
One effect of the gold rush in California was the growth of THIS over several decades.
What is population?
In 1821, he brought settlers to Texas on the lower Colorado River.
Who is Stephen F. Austin?
This battle during the Texas Revolution only lasted 18 minutes.
What is the Battle of San Jacinto?
In 1836, Texans declared THIS when a Mexican Army attempted to take a cannon in Gonzales.
What is independence?
The Texan Army defeated Santa Anna's Mexican army in this battle, winning independence for Texas.
What is the Battle of San Jacinto?
This land was claimed up to 54° 40'N latitude, fulfilling the idea of manifest destiny.
What is Oregon Country?
He promoted the idea that it was the manifest destiny of the United States to settle all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
Who is James O'Sullivan?
Sam Houston was adopted by the Cherokee, who called him this bird species in the genus Corvus.
What is "Raven?"
In Texas, one of the effects of Stephen F. Austin's successful first colony was an increase in the number of these types of settlers arriving, refusing to obey Mexican laws.
Who are Anglo-American settlers?
In the Texas Revolution, this was a Mexican victory where 350 Texan prisoners were executed on the Gulf Coast.
What is the Goliad?
This territory was gained following the Mexican-American War, fulfilling the idea of manifest destiny.
What is Mexican territory?
These immigrants came to California between 1849 and 1853 to make money in the gold mines and return home.
Who are the Chinese?
This clothing company keeps a 1879 pair of jeans in a fireproof safe, estimated to be worth over $100,000.
What is Levi Strauss?
This happened to Texas in 1845. Welcome aboard!
What is annexed as a state?
This Spanish mission in San Antonio, Texas, was the site of a famous battle of the Texas Revolution that was a Mexican victory.
What is the Alamo?
Merchants in California charged inflated prices for this basic commodity due to high demand.
What are goods?
Who is John Sutter?
During the California Gold Rush, miners used an estimated 26 million pounds of THIS toxic element to extract gold from ore. It remains in waterways, affecting ecosystems.
What is mercury?
This Texas general would later serve as the President of the Republic of Texas and its senator when it became a state.
Who is Sam Houston?
In the treaty of ______________________ ____________________ the United States gained an area of land known as the ______________________ ___________________.
What are the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the Mexican Cession?
These three present-day states were formed from the Mexican Cession.
What are California, Nevada, and Utah?
This Tennessee governor and future president favored acquiring Texas and Oregon.
Who is James K. Polk?
In the 1980s, Mr. Stempien drove this most astoundingly scenic California coastal highway in a '70s Datsun B-210.
What is the Pacific Coast Highway, or State Route 1?