Treaties and Compromises
The treaty that allowed the border between Texas and Mexico to remain the Rio Grande.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?
President of the US who believed strongly in Manifest Destiny.
Who is James K Polk?
The route taken by American settlers to the new US territory in the northwestern part of the country.
What is the Oregon Trail?
1803
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Added Maine as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Groups of Americans who moved to California searching for gold.
Who are Forty-Niners?
Came to the US hoping to find gold, stayed for economic opportunities.
Who are Chinese Immigrants?
Name the factors that helped cities grow.
What is railroad, steamboats, canals, and industries?
The 1820 ruling that admitted Missouri as a slave state.
What is Missouri Compromise?
Ended the Texas Revolution.
What is the Treaty of Velasco?
He had a vision from God telling him to move his people to the Great Salt Lake in Utah.
Who is Brigham Young?
The name of the territory taken over by the US after the Mexican-American War.
What is the Mexican Session?
Large-scale agriculture and growing of cash crops.
What is Southern economy?
1846-1848
What is Mexican-American War?
Added California as a free state.
What is the Compromise of 1850.
Writer who protested slavery and the war by refusing to pay his taxes.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
Acquired for $10 million dollars and used to connect Texas and California by railroad.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
A religious group who moved westward to escape religious persecution.
Who are the Mormons?
1845
When was Texas annexed?
Gave Florida to the US.
What is the Adams-Onis Treaty?
Two-time President of Texas who favored annexation.
Who is Sam Houston?
Explain Manifest Destiny.
What is the belief that America should expand its borders?
Belief that the US was meant to expand from coast to coast.
What is Manifest Destiny?
1853
What is the Gadsden Purchase?