First white Americans in Oregon
Mountain Men
Group of people who flocked to California in 1849
49ers
The right for Americans to spread across the continent
Fort famous for its heroic last stand
The Alamo
Irrigation & Farming
Mexican Dictator/General
General Santa Anna
Mexican and Native American Cowhands that worked on ranches.
Vaqueros
United States, United Kingdom, Russia, Spain
This person was the first to settle in soon to be Austin Texas
Stephen Austin
Starting point of the Oregon Trail
Independence Missouri
11th President of the United States
James K. Polk
A project that stretches from Cumberland Maryland throughout Illinois
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
Name of independent Northern California
Bear Flag Republic
This economic system had a plan to grow all three regions of the United States
Robert Fulton
Project that linked the Mohawk and Hudson rivers together
Erie Canal
America's first multimillionaire
John Jacob Astor
Gadsen Purchase
This party turned upside down when they started eating the dead
The Donner Party
DAILY DOUBLE!! American general who captured Mexico City
General Winfield Scott
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
The branch of Mormon was created by which person?
Joseph Smith
Famous frontiersman who was killed at the Alamo
Davy Crockett
This disease was the leading cause of death on the Oregon Trail
Cholera