a large area of grazing land without fences or other barriers
What is open range?
200
President during the civil war era
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
Louisiana purchase (1803) was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million.
What is Louisiana purchase?
300
years considered to be the civil war era.
What is 1815-1830 ?
300
Pennsylvania (July 1–July 3, 1863), was the largest battle of the American Civil War as well as the largest battle ever fought in North America
What is Battle of Gettysburg?
300
the act of taking over or seizing something, especially land or territory
What is annexation?
300
President during the Manifest Destiny and Mexican-American war.
Who is James K. Polk?
300
1838 and 1839(part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy) the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma.
What is Trail of Tears?
400
outline strategy for suppressing the Confederacy at the beginning of the American Civil War.
What is anaconda plan?
400
who ended slavery
What is Abraham Lincoln?
400
Santa Anna and his Mexican forces defeated Texan forces at the Alamo, a fort near San Antonio. Led to a great wave of anger against the Mexicans; Texan militia under Houston fought back with slogan "Remember the Alamo!
What is The Alamo?
500
1846-1848 this was caused by Mexico firing on American troops along the Rio Grande. Mexico did not want to sell Polk California and New Mexico.