Oregon Territory
The 3 trails created by the mountain men
What is the California, Oregon, and Santa Fe Trail?
The capital of Florida
What is Tallahassee?
The place where 2,000 Mexican soldiers attacked about 180 Texans and all of the Texans were killed
What is the Alamo?
The treaty that ended the Mexican-American War
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?
The reason that Houston's army was successful at the Battle of the San Jacinto River
What is Santa Anna and his men were taking a nap?
The 4 countries that had a claim in Oregon Territory (besides the Native American tribes)
What is Russia, the U.S., Great Britain, and Spain?
What is Iowa?
Leader of Mexico during the Texas Revolution and the Mexican-American War
What is Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna?
The 2 territories that Polk wanted to get from Mexico
What is California and New Mexico?
The statement on the flag that flew above the cannon at Gonzales
What is "Come and take it"?
One of the first millionaires in American History thanks to his business, The American Fur Company
What is John Jacob Astor?
The president that annexed (added) Texas to the Union
What is James K. Polk?
Leader of the Old Three Hundred
What is Stephen Austin?
The 3 goals of the U.S. in the Mexican-American War
What is drive Mexican forces out of Texas, seize New Mexico and California, and capture Mexico City?
The descendants of Spaniards and Mestizos that lived in Texas
What is Tejanos?
The Treaty that caused Spain to withdraw all claims to Oregon Territory and gave the U.S. Florida
What is the Adams-Onis Treaty?
The year that Texas became a state
What is 1845?
The 4 promises that settlers had to make if they moved to Texas
What is learn Spanish, become Mexican citizens, obey Mexican laws, and convert to Roman Catholic?
The person who offered Mexico $30 million for California and New Mexico
What is John Slidell?
What is the Whitman Massacre?
Manifest Destiny was a term first published in a newspaper by this man
What is John O'Sullivan?
The year that California became a state
What is 1850?
The commander that refused to listen to Sam Houston's orders and was captured and executed along with 350 of his men
What is Commander Fannin?
The general that was sent to Veracruz to march his troops inland to Mexico City
What is General Winfield Scott?
The name of the group of pioneers that took a "shortcut" through the Sierra Nevada mountains, got stuck, and took part in cannibalism
What is the Donner Party?