Names American Knew
Gold seekers who went to California.
Who were Forty Niners?
The Lone Star Republic.
Metal whose discovery caused many people to hurry to California.
What was gold?
Institution oppsed by many people, especially in the North.
What was slavery?
Means of sending messages using the telegraph.
What is morse code?
U.S. President who tried to buy land from Mexico.
Who was James K. Polk?
Mission in San Antonio where many Texans died.
What was the Alamo?
Path followed by settlers going to the Northwest.
What was the Oregon Trail?
Texas was this for nine years before it became a state.
What was the Lone Star Repulbic or republic?
Cyrus McCormick was the inventor of this machine which made harvesting grain easier.
What was the mechanical reaper?
Dictator of Mexico during the Texans' war with Mexico.
Who was Santa Anna?
What was the Rio Grande?
Groups of settlers traveling west together for protection.
What were wagon trains?
Battle cry of Texans in 1836.
What was "remember the Alamo?"
Eli Whitney's idea: a series of parts that would fit any model of a given product.
What was interchangeable parts?
General nicknames Old Rough and Ready. He would become President and die while in office.
Who was Zachary Taylor?
Area claimed by Britain, Spain, Russia, and the United States.
What was the Oregon Territory?
Idea that God wanted the United States to govern the land to the Pacific.
What was Manifest Destiny?
Series of laws that admitted California to the Union as a free state.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
Long ditch built between Albany and Buffalo, NY.
What was the Erie Canal?
Army officer called Pathfinder.
Who was John C. Fremont?
Treaty that ended the war with Mexico.
What was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Name of the party that got stuck in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and had to resort to cannibalism.
What was the Donner Party?
Term given to the block of land the United States got from Mexico at the close of the Mexican War.
What was the Mexican Cession?
Who was Elias Howe?