Mexican American War
Lasted from 1846-1848 and resulted in the loss of about half of the Mexican Territory.
What was the Mexican American War?
Mexican general that led the Mexican army in the battles against revolutionaries in Texas and later the United States.
Who was general Santa Anna?
It brought prospectors "Rushing West" in 1849.
What was Gold?
The amendment that abolished slavery.
What was the 13th Amendment?
Forced the resettlement of many thousands of Native Americans to the West
What was the Indian Removal Act?
Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
What was the Battle of the Alamo?
He discovered gold in 1848 at Sutter's Mill in a canal near the mill.
Who was James W. Marshall?
People who went to California seeking Gold in 1849.
Who were the forty-niners?
Economic method in the South after the war. What former slaves were doing for "jobs and housing".
What was sharecropping?
When they were moving to the reservations, about 1/4 of the Native American population died during this trail.
What was the Trail of Tears?
Acquired additional land from Mexico to help the construction of a southern transcontinental railroad.
What was the Gadsden Purchase?
A person of Spanish heritage who considers Texas his or her home.
Who is a Tejano?
Gold was first discovered here in 1848 marking the beginning of the Gold Rush.
What was Sutter's Mill?
Northern republican who moved to the south to make money.
Who were carpetbaggers?
The belief that the U.S. should extend all the way to the Pacific Ocean. (God)
Manifest Destiny
Spanish or Mexican cowhand
Who was a Vaquero?
He was the President of Texas and leader of the Texas Revolt.
Who was Sam Houston?
What is San Francisco?
Group of members of Congress that wanted the federal government to punish the south after the civil war.
Who were Radical Republicans?
Shoshone women whose language skills and knowledge of geography helped Lewis and Clark during their expedition.
Who was Sacagawea?
Ended the Mexican American War
What was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
After the _____ Territory was bought from France by ______, these two went on an expedition to explore the newly acquired territory and they reached all the way till the Pacific Ocean.
What was Louisiana;
Who was Thomas Jefferson; Who were Lewis and Clark
A city that grows quickly.
What is a Boom Town?
The struggle of how to return southern states into the Union after the Civil War.
What was Reconstruction?
Trapped and traded beaver skins, also blazing trails west; rendezvous.
Who were mountain men and where did their trade take place?