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100
Who owned land where gold was first discovered in California?
Who is John Sutter?
100
The place where pioneers would carve their names and notes of encouragement to other pioneers.
What is Independence Rock?
100
The trail that went from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon City, Oregon.
What is the Oregon Trail?
100
The state Independence is in.
What is Missouri?
100
The war that Texas won its independence in.
What is the Texas War for Independence?
200
An explorer, mapper, and reporter hired by the United States.
Who is John C. Fremont?
200
A mountain pass that stood in the way of many settlers on the Oregon Trail.
What is the Rocky Mountains?
200
A series of secret underground pathways for enslaved people to travel on to escape and become free.
What is the Underground Railroad?
200
This was the 28th state. It was annexed, or added on, on December 29, 1845.
What is Texas?
200
This is the capital of Mexico and where the was between Mexico and the United States in 1846 ended.
What is Mexico City?
300
The man who was chosen as the commander of the Texas army when they battled Mexico in 1836.
Who is Sam Houston?
300
Where the end of the Oregon Trail was. Here, pioneers were given food, clothing, and shelter from other settlers there.
What is Willamette Valley?
300
The trail opened by a Missouri trader, William Becknell, from Independence, Missourim to Santa Fe in New Mexico.
What is Santa Fe Trail?
300
This was the 31st state.
What is California?
300
This is a vocabulary word for something given up.
What is a cession?
400
This man found the South Pass in the Rocky Mountains.
Who is Jedediah Smith?
400
The area that included parts of present-day Canada, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Oregon.
What is Oregon Country?
400
This is the trail that Brigham Young led Mormons on for about 1,000 miles.
What is Mormon Trail?
400
This state was the 33rd state and became a state on February 14, 1859.
What is Oregon?
400
This is the vocabulary word for the idea that the United States was meant to stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans.
What is manifest destiny?
500
This man was the general of the United States army when they fought against Mexico in 1846.
Who is General Zachery Taylor?
500
Where the U.S. thought that the border between them and Mexico was.
What is the Rio Grande River?
500
This is the overland trail that crossed the Rio Grande and the Colorado River. It linked Santa Fe to Los Angeles.
What is the Old Spanish Trail?
500
This is the state where the Old Spanish Trail ended.
What is California?
500
This is a vocabulary word that means to cross.
What is ford?
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