The Frontier
The trade of mountain men.
What is the fur trade?
The name of the African American cavalry soldiers.
Who are the Buffalo Soldiers?
Term to describe the belief that the U.S. was destined to expand to the Pacific Ocean
What is Manifest Destiny?
1803 land deal that doubled the size of the United States
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Led the expedition to explore the Louisiana Purchase
Who are Merriweather Lewis and William Clark (Lewis and Clark)?
What discovery led to the creation of boomtown?
What is gold?
The battle was a major loss for Texas, but served as a rally cry.
What is the Alamo?
Major hardship faced on the Oregon Trail
What are food shortages and difficult terrain?
Route used by settlers traveling west to Oregon and California
What is the Oregon Trail?
Shoshone woman who guided and interpreted for Lewis and Clark
Who is Sacagawea?
Founder of the first settlements in Oregon
Name of the revolt when Americans declaring California an independent nation.
What is the Bear Flag Revolt?
the main purpose of the transcontinental railroad
What is connecting the eastern and western U.S.?
The railroad that connected the United States from east to west.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Mexican general and president during the Texas Revolution
Who is Santa Anna?
The area where cattle ranching thrived from Texas to Canada.
What is the Cattle Kingdom?
The name of the treaty that ended the Mexican American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
The president that favored acquiring Texas and Oregon?
Who is James Polk?
1890 event where U.S. troops killed about 150 Sioux
What is the Massacre at Wounded Knee?
Sioux leader who resisted U.S. policies and fought at Little Bighorn
Who is Sitting Bull?
This person was granted permission by Mexico to found a colony in California in 1839.
Who is John Sutter?
The leader of the unsuccessful revolt against Spain in 1810.
Who is Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla?
This law passed led to giving farmers land to encourage them to move west.
What is the Homestead Act?
Fast mail service using horse riders across the West.
What is the Pony Express?
Paiute who lectured on problems of the reservation system
Who is Sarah Winnemucca?