Vocab and vocab accessories
What's annex?
The Gold Rush was centered around this state.
What is California?
More common name for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
What's Mormons?
War fought between the US and Mexico.
What's the Mexican American War?
This issue prevented Florida and Texas from becoming states for several years.
What's slavery? (balance of slave and free states)
Texan of Latin-American (often Mexican) descent.
What's Tejano?
Gold was discovered by James Wilson Marshall at this water-powered sawmill in 1848.
What's Sutter's Mill?
Founder of the church, who claimed he received golden plates from an angel that he compiled into the Book of Mormon (not the musical -- that makes fun of this guy.)
Who is Joseph Smith?
This city in New Mexico was prosperous and attracted many US settlers.
What is Santa Fe?
This territory was shared between the US and UK (until Manifest Destiny showed up.)
What's Oregon?
Like San Francisco during the Gold Rush!
What's a boomtown?
The year a BUNCH of people arrived in California, looking for gold.
What's 1849?
Among other practices that upset their neighbors, the Mormons believed in this practice of having multiple wives.
What's polygamy?
This Pacific territory had a chain of missions under the Spanish that became ranches under Mexico, and also attracted settlers from the US. They rose up in rebellion even before the war started.
What is California?
Remember this rallying cry that helped Texas become independent from Mexico.
What's the Alamo?
Last two digits of a year.
What's a forty-niner?
These people often made MORE money than the gold miners, by providing them with equipment, clothes, and food.
Who are entrepreneurs?
The Mormons migrated a lot, first fleeing New York to Illinois, and then fleeing to _____.
What's Utah?
This treaty ended the war, and gave a huge amount of land to the US.
What's the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
His election slogan was "Fifty-four forty or fight," even though he settled for forty-nine.
Who is James K Polk?
Polk's dream.
What's Manifest Destiny?
This is the only way gold is created in the natural universe.
What is a supernova?
This guy took over after Joseph Smith died.
Who is Brigham Young?
This guy's army landed at Veracruz and took over Mexico City, decisively ending the war.
Who's General Winfield Scott?
Year both Florida and Texas became states.
What's 1845?