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Vocab
Manifest Destiny
Texas-California
Emerging America
100

First white Americans in Oregon

Mountain Men

100

Group of people who flocked to California in 1849

49ers

100
The definition of Manifest Destiny

The right for Americans to spread across the continent

100

Fort famous for its heroic last stand

The Alamo

100
The Pueblo People did these two things to survive in the dry southwest

Irrigation & Farming

200

Mexican Dictator/General

General Santa Anna

200

Mexican and Native American Cowhands that worked on ranches.

Vaqueros

200
These four countries laid claims to Oregon Country

United States, United Kingdom, Russia, Spain

200

This person was the first to settle in soon to be Austin Texas

Stephen Austin

200

Starting point of the Oregon Trail

Independence Missouri

300

11th President of the United States

James K. Polk

300

A project that stretches from Cumberland Maryland throughout Illinois

The National Road
300

A negative aspect of adding Texas into the Union

1. Expansion of Slavery

2. Paying off Texan Debt

3. Afraid of starting a war with America

300

Name of independent Northern California

Bear Flag Republic

300

This economic system had a plan to grow all three regions of the United States

The American System
400
The inventor of the steamboat

Robert Fulton

400

Project that linked the Mohawk and Hudson rivers together

Erie Canal

400

America's first multimillionaire

John Jacob Astor

400
A strip of Arizona and New Mexico were included in this purchase

Gadsen Purchase

400

This party turned upside down when they started eating the dead

The Donner Party

500

 DAILY DOUBLE!! American general who captured Mexico City

General Winfield Scott

500
Treaty that ended the Mexican American War

Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

500

The branch of Mormon was created by which person?

Joseph Smith

500

Famous frontiersman who was killed at the Alamo

Davy Crockett 

500

This disease was the leading cause of death on the Oregon Trail

Cholera

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