Places Americans Went
Mission in San Antonio where many Texans died.
What was the Alamo?
Form of transportation for which a southern route was needed, prompting the U.S. purchase of Mexican land in 1853.
What is a railroad?
What Texas was for nine years before it became a state.
What is a republic?
What are buffalo?
Cheap fencing for the Great Plains.
What was barbed wire?
Western state in which the Mormons settled.
Where is Utah?
Metal whose discovery caused many people to hurry to California.
What is gold?
Term given to the block of land the United States got from Mexico at the close of the Mexican War.
What was the Mexican Cession?
Occupation that government agents wanted Native Americans to take up.
What is farming?
Period of time that homesteaders had to live on the land before it officially belonged to them.
What is five years?
River that United States wanted as a border between Texas and Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande River?
Path followed by settlers going to the Northwest.
What was the Oregon Trail?
Battle cry of Texans in 1836.
What is "Remember the Alamo"?
An area of land set aside for Native American use.
What is a reservation?
Material from which early homes were built on the Great Plains.
What is sod?
Place where Santa Anna suffered a major defeat in 1836.
What was the Battle of San Jacinto?
What is manifest destiny?
Act passed by Congress, allowing farmers to get free land.
What is the Homestead Act?
Name for the long, bitter journey taken by the Cherokee Indians after they were forced to give up their land in the East.
What is the Trail of Tears?
These insects often came in such large numbers that they ate all of the farmers' crops.
What are grasshoppers or locusts?
Place where the treaty to end the Mexican-American War was signed.
Where is Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Purchase from Mexico that completed the area of the 48 states.
What was the Gadsden Purchase?
Name for people who qualified for free government lands.
What are homesteaders?
Largest and most powerful tribe of the Plains region.
Who were the Sioux?
First railroad to cross the Great Plains.
What is the transcontinental railroad?