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US-Mexican War
Trails to The West
Expansion
Gold!
Messing With Texas
100
The president who pushed for war with Mexico.
Who is James K. Polk?
100
The westward trail that ended in the state of New Mexico & allowed for trade between Mexican and American merchants.
What is the Santa Fe Trail?
100
The territory bought from France that doubled the size of the US.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
100
The name for those who came to California in search of gold.
Who are forty-niners?
100
The name of the first American who led American settlers into the Mexican controlled territory of Texas.
Who is Stephen F. Austin?
200
The river in Texas that the US claimed was the border between the United States and Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande?
200
The westward trail that ended in Salt Lake City, Utah & was traveled for religious freedom.
What is the Mormon Trail?
200

This area was gained from the Adams-Onis Treaty.

What is Florida?

200
The immigrant group that eventually left the gold mines and started businesses in California.
Who are the Chinese?
200
The name for Texas when it was a country.
What is the Lone Star Republic?
300

The General who sent troops to the disputed territory between the US & Mexico.

Who is Zachary Taylor?

300
The first American settlers in the Oregon Territory.
Who are missionaries (Marcus & Narcissa Whitman)?
300

It took 10 years for this place to get annexed.

What is Texas?

300
The 19th Century American term that stated it was obvious fate to occupy & bring democracy across the North American continent.
What is "Manifest Destiny?"
300
The battle that gave Texas its independence from Mexico.
What is the battle of San Jacinto?
400
The document that signaled the end of the Mexican War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
400
The reason the trails west traveled above Oklahoma & Kansas?
What is due to the Indian Territory?
400
The territory that set the US border at the 49°N parallel.
What is Oregon?
400
A long-term effect of the gold rush on the Natives in California.
What is a drastic decrease in the Native American population?
400
The states that were added to the US from the Mexican Cession.
What are California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming?
500

The amount of money the US paid to Mexico for the territory to complete the transcontinental railroad? 

What was $10 million?

500
The starting point for the Oregon Trail and the Santa Fe Trail.
Where was (Independence), Missouri?
500
The country from whom the US negotiated the Gadsden Purchase.
Who is Mexico?
500
The nationalities that settled in California after the gold rush.
Who are Mexicans, Europeans, African Americans, Chinese, and Americans?
500

The main reason the US took so long to annex Texas.

What is Texas was a slave state and they were afraid to upset the balance between slave and free states