Territories
Indians from there attacked Americans in Georgia.
What is the Spanish Cession?
Three explorers of land purchased from France.
Who are Lewis, Clarke, and Pike?
Texas became the Lone Star Republic in this year.
What is 1836?
Country that sold the Louisiana Territory.
What is France?
Land which has not yet been divided into states.
What is a territory?
The first wagon train arrived in the Willamette Valley in 1843.
What is the Oregon Country?
Led several hundred American families into Texas.
Who is Stephen Austin?
The Mississippi river became the western boundary of the United States in this year.
What is 1783?
Became concerned about the large number of American settlers in Texas.
Campaign slogan of President James K. Polk.
What is "54-40 or Fight"?
Western farmers urged President Thomas Jefferson to buy it from Napoleon.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Missionaries whose stories speeded the settlement of the Oregon Country.
Who are Marcus and Narcissa Whitman?
The United States and Great Britain signed a treaty which divided a small piece of land north of the Louisiana Purchase in this year.
What is 1818?
Paid American citizens $5 million in exchange for the Spanish Cession.
What is United States?
Soldiers from Texas said this.
What is "Remember the Alamo"?
It was divided between the United States and Great Britain after 28 years of "joint occupation".
What is Oregon Country?
Defeated Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto during the Texas Revolution.
Who is Sam Houston?
The year when a territory was purchased so that a transcontinental railroad could be built.
What is 1853?
Country that won the Mexican-American War.
What is the United States?
City where Santa Anna surrounded an old Spanish mission.
What is San Antonio?
The Mexican War began a year after it was obtained by the United States.
Purchased the southern parts of New Mexico and Arizona from the Mexican government for $10 million.
Who is James Gadsden?
William Travis, Davy Crockett, and Jim Bowie lost their lives at the Alamo in this year.
What is 1836?
Former name for a state admitted to the Union in 1845.
What is the Lone Star Republic?
Amount of money paid by the United States for the Oregon Country.
What is $0?