Texas
Oregon County
Missionaries
Presidents
Mexican-American War
100
Forty-niners
Who rushed to California in search of gold?
100
Brigham Young
Who was the leaders of the Mormans?
100
Henry and Eliza Spalding
Who wrote Christian writings and songs in the Nez Perce language?
100
California had excellent port cities.
Why did President Polk want to take California from the Mexicans?
100
Better leaders
What is one advantage that the Americans had over the Mexicans?
200
pioneers
What were the people who first settled an area called?
200
locator map
What feature on a map shows where an area is located in the world?
200
The first President to die while in office.
Who is William Henry Harrison?
200
Had to become Catholic and free their slaves.
What was the law that Americans living in Mexico territory had to obey?
300
Merchants
Who gained the most money from the California gold rush?
300
map scale
What can be used to find the actural distance between two places on a map?
300
William Henry Harrison
Who was the first president to die while in office?
300
They wanted to bring back the Mexican Constitution of 1824.
Why did the peope in Texas decide to fight Santa Anna?
400
miners
Who gets natural resources from the earth?
400
The gold rush
What caused California's population growth in 1849?
400
Marcus Whitman
Who was a missionary to the Cayuse people?
500
Manifest Destiny
What belief gave Americans the right to claim all lands between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?
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