Travel to the West
Texas and the Mexican War
Native Americans
Vocabulary
Groups that traveled west
100

Travel in America in the 1700s was difficult for this reason

Bad roads

100

The name of the 17 year old commander at the Alamo was

William B. Travis

100

This Native American proclaimed that even though his people had helped the settlers, they took away their homes and way of life.

Speckled Snake

100

The United State and Great Britain agreed that the boundary for America in the north would be set at the 54 degrees and 40 ft line of _________

latitude

100

Americans believed that it was their God given right to possess the land of the entire continent. This was called-

Manifest Destiny

200

The Oregon Trail began here

Independence, Missouri

200

The conflict between Texas and Mexico happened at the

Battle of the Alamo

200

This young Native girl guided Lewis and Clark in an expedition

Sacagawea

200

A person who has come from France to permanently live in America has done this

Emigrated

200

This group of people traveled west to escape religious persecution

 The Mormons

300

Three advantages of railroads over canals were

they didn't freeze 

they could go over mountains

they were faster

300

The Mexican government asked the first Americans that moved to Texas to 

become loyal citizens

300

This Native American man resented American settlers for taking Native lands. 

Tecumseh

300

People who traveled on the Oregon Trail were called

Pioneers

300

This brought 80,000 people to the west

The California Gold Rush

400

Daniel Boone made travel over the Appalachian Mountains possible by clearing a pass called this

Cumberland Gap

400

President Polk hoped to add new areas to the United States, two of them were

New Mexico and California

400

This Native American from the Cherokee tribe, developed a written language.

Sequoyah

400

This is a sense or belief a person has that a certain action is right or wrong

conscience

400

Great Britain and the United States used this strategy to avoid war

Compromise

500

Steamboats were considered a good invention because they could carry these two things

goods and people

500

This is the reason why Texas was not admitted into the union at first

It allowed slavery

500

These five tribes of Native American's decided to accept the settler ways.

Choctaw, Creek, Cherokee, Chickawas, and Seminole

500

American's and Native American's made agreements called

Treaties

500

Many Americans made this treacherous journey for fertile land and 

the fur of its animals