people who went to California during the gold rush of 1849
Who are forty-niners?
100
List the present-day states that made up the New Mexico Territory.
What is New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Colorado and Wyoming?
100
Northerners favored Texas joining the U.S. T or F
Southerners favored Texas joining the U.S. T or F
What is False?
What is True?
200
an order given by one in authority
What is decree?
200
a frontiersman living in the wilderness, as in the Rocky Mountains
Who is mountain man?
200
Mexican who claims Texas as his home
Mexicans who lived in California
Who is Tejano?
Who is Californios?
200
Prior to joining the U.S., Texas was known as the Republic of Texas (Lonestar Republic)? T or F
Prior to joining the U.S., California was known as the Bear Flag Republic. T or F
What is True?
What is True?
200
_____________ made the largest single migration in American history. They traveled to the ______ ______ _______ region in present-day Utah. _______ ________ was the head of the Mormons.
Mormons
Great Salt Lake
Brigham Young
300
people who take the law into their own hands
Who is vigilante?
300
a person who arranged for the settlement of land in Texas during the 1800s
Who is empresario?
300
meeting
What is rendezvous?
300
Name the river that borders Texas and Mexico?
What is Rio Grande River?
300
__________ recruited 300 American families to settle land in Texas.
When Texas became its own republic, __________ was elected their president.
Who is Stephen F. Austin?
Who is Sam Houston?
400
huge properties for raising livestock set up by Mexican settlers in California
What is rancho?
400
the possession and settling of an area shared by two or more countries
What is joint occupation?
400
the idea popular in the U.S. during the 1800s that the country must expand its boundaries to the Pacific
What is Manifest Destiny?
400
This trail went across the Great Plains, along the Platte River, and through the South Pass of the Rocky Mountains towards the Oregon Country?
This trail was a route toward the New Mexico Territory.
What is Oregon Trail?
What is Sante Fe Trail?
400
The _______ ___ _____________ _____________ ended the war with Mexico.
What is Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
500
to give up by treaty
What is cede?
500
a community experiencing a sudden growth in business or population
What is boomtown?
500
person who leaves a country or region to live elsewhere
Who is emigrant?
500
Name the 4 nations that laid claim to Oregon Country.
What is U.S., Russia, Great Britain, and Spain?
500
List President Polk's 3-part plan for the War with Mexico.
What is 1.) Drive Mexican forces out of the disputed border region in Texas and make the border secure. 2.) Seize New Mexico Territory and California 3.) Capture Mexico City