Definitely Definitions
A Spanish or Mexican cowhand
What is a Vaquero?
These were dangers of the Oregon Trail.
What are:
Drowning?
Water drying up?
Cholera and other diseases?
Two main forms of transportation that people used to move into the West.
What are Wagons and Flatboats?
The most valuable resource of the Western territory.
What is Water?
To surround and blockade an enemy town or position with troops to force it to surrender.
What is a Seige?
The first federally funded national road project, begun in 1811.
What is the National Road?
These many acres were how much people were able to buy because of the Northwest Ordinance, the territory from the Ohio River to the Mississippi River.
What is 640?
Reasons the United States was worried about annexing Texas.
President Jackson was worried that annexing Texas would lead to a war with Mexico.
Northerners were afraid that Texas would join as a slave state.
California became the 31st state on September 9th of this year.
When is 1850?
The route to Santa Fe, New Mexico, that was used by traders in the 1800s.
What is the Santa Fe Trail?
The route to the Oregon Country used by wagon trains in the 1800s.
What is the Oregon Trail?
Elimination: Name the parts of the American System.
1. Tariffs protected industry.
2. The National Bank would make loans to promote business growth.
3. Tariffs and sale of public lands would provide funds for transportation improvements.
This was the battle cry for the Battle of San Jacinto in the war for Texas’ Independence.
What is "Remember the Alamo"?
Utah, which was part of the Mexican Cession, became the 42nd state in this year.
When is 1896?
An old Spanish mission building in Texas where Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged Texans in 1836.
What is the Alamo?
A trapper who explored and hunted in the American West in the early 1800s.
What is a Mountain Man?
Settlers had to reach the Oregon lowlands by this month in order to avoid the area’s harsh winters.
When is October?
A small group of Texans, Tejanos, and other American Volunteer soldiers defended the Alamo for this many days. Allowing Sam Houston to get support for his Texas Army.
What is 12 Days?
This industry became a big business in California. These people would gain great wealth and would occupy a higher social status.
What is Ranching?
A term used to describe one of more than 80,000 people who joined the California Gold Rush.
What is a Forty-Niner?
The Mexican territories of California and New Mexico given to the US in 1848.
What is the Mexican Cession?
This ran from Cumberland, MD to Wheeling, VA and began construction in 1811.
What is the National Road?
Texas was annexed and became the 28th state on December 29th of this year.
When is 1845?
The Gold Rush began at Sutter’s Mill in Northern California on January 4th of this year.
When is 1848?
A term used in the early 1800s for the region that includes present-day Oregon, Washington and Idaho, as well as parts of Wyoming, Montana, and Western Canada.
What is the Oregon Country?