Manifesty Desty
Yes But Does the Alamo Remember You?
Jimmy Polka's War
Dissin' Terry
Border Disorder
100
This 1845 phrase coined by newspaper editor John O'Sullivan stated that America had a divine mission to expand across the continent.
Manifest Destiny
100
This Mexican dictator and general led troops into Texas in 1836 to crush the Anglo-Texan rebellion.
General Antonio López de Santa Anna
100
It's the full name of the U.S. President elected in 1844 ran on an aggressive expansionist platform to annex Texas and acquire California.
James K Polk
100
The 2,000-mile overland trail stretching from Independence, Missouri to the fertile Willamette Valley in the Pacific Northwest.
The Oregon Trail
100
This 1848 treaty ended the Mexican American War
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
200
This federal law passed in 1830 under Andrew Jackson forced Southeastern Native American tribes to move west of the Mississippi River.
Indian Removal Act
200
This famous 13-day siege at a San Antonio mission fort had around 200 Texan defenders fighting to their deaths against 2,000 Mexican troops.
The Battle of the Alamo
200
In the Texas border dispute, the US insisted this much further southwest river was the real border.
Rio Grande
200
DAILY DOUBLE The heavy, canvas and wooden wagons nicknamed 'Prairie Schooners' used by pioneer families traveling West.
Covered Wagons
200
It's the total monetary amount paid by the United States to Mexico in exchange for the Mexican Cession territory.
$15 million
300
It's an 800-mile forced relocation of Cherokee people to Indian Territory (Oklahoma), during which thousands died from cold, hunger, and disease.
Trail of Tears
300
He's the mutton-chopped military man seen here, who later had a city in Texas named after him.
Sam Houston
300
He's the freshman Illinois Whig Congressman who introduced the 'Spot Resolutions' demanding Polk show the exact spot where blood was shed.
Abraham Lincoln
300
In the Oregon Trail game, this soft-handed character hailed from Boston.
Banker
300
It's the number of the controversial article of the 1848 treaty that promised to protect the civil, property, and voting rights of Mexican citizens remaining in the U.S.
Article 9
400
It's a religious or philosophical concept that expansionists used to justify taking western lands from Mexico and Native Americans.
God
400
It's the decisive 18-minute battle led by Sam Houston where Santa Anna was captured and forced to recognize Texas independence.
Battle of San Jacinto
400
President Polk ordered this US General to march troops into the disputed land between the Nueces and Rio Grande, triggering the ambush.
Zachary Taylor
400
This word means to walk across a (hopefully) shallow stream, or the make of your dad's truck.
Ford
400
This is the percentage of its total national territory that Mexico was forced to cede to the United States under the 1848 treaty.
55%
500
DAILY DOUBLE: It's the type of wire seen here, being carried across the sky in John Gast's American Progress.
Telegraph
500
Your brain floods with this chemical when you are out for revenge.
Dopamine
500
They say 90% of life is just showing up, and that's just what the US military did to acquire this state in the Mexican American War....but that's nothing *new*
New Mexico
500
It's one of the fatal diseases contracted by settlers on the Oregon Trail.
Dysentery or Cholera
500
In the Texas border dispute, Mexico insisted this much further northeast river was the real border.
Nueces