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They rushed to California in search of gold.
Who were the forty-niners?
Mexico forbade any more Americans to move to Texas due to the following reasons.
What is they feared Americans wanting to make Texas part of the United States, U.S immigrants kept their slaves?
Some Native Americans in California were forced to do this at missions.
What is work farm and ranch.
The entire Southwest belonged to Mexico in the 1840s. This huge region was known as this.
What is New Mexico Territory?
Nickname the Texans gave their new nation after they won independence.
What is the Lone Star Republic?
They punished criminals although they had no legal powers.
What are vigilantes?
He founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Who is Joseph Smith?
To stop lawlessness, Californians decided to do this.
What is write a constitution, create a government, and become a state?
The chief missionary who built his first mission at San Diego.
Who is Fr. Junipero Serra?
Mexicans who lived in Texas.
What are Tejanos?
Mountain men went to the West in search of.
What are furs?
These countries claimed Oregon in the early 1800s.
What are Great Britain, Russia, Spain, and the United States?
The United States should expand to the Pacific.
What is Manifest Destiny?
He was elected president in 1844 because he favored expansion of the United States.
Who is James Polk?
General who came to power in Mexico in 1833.
Who is Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna?
Mexico encouraged Americans to settle in Texas because they wanted.
What is hoping Americans would develop the land?
Good opportunities for trade attracted Americans to this place in the Southwest.
What is Santa Fe, New Mexico?
This man lead the Mormons after Joseph Smith was murdered in St. Joseph, Mo.
Who is Brigham Young?
"Fifty-four forty or fight" referred to the Democrats' desire to add this to the United States.
What is Oregon Country?
A French word meaning get-together was an annual meeting of mountain men and fur traders.
What is rendezvous?
One of the first missionaries to reach Oregon.
Who were the Whitman's?
This agreement gave the United States a strip of land that completed its expansion across the continent.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
The place in California where gold was discovered in 1848.
What is Sutter's Mill?
First president of the Republic of Texas.
Who is Sam Houston?
The African American mountain man who left Virginia to escape slavery discovered a pass through the Sierra Nevadas.
Who is James Beckwourth?