Section 1 Settlers Move West
Four nations made claims to this area:
Russia, Spain, Great Britain, United States
A general who seized control of Mexico refused to let Texas break free
Santa Anna
What did both the U.S. and Mexico think the Texas-border was?
Rio Grande, Nueces River
People who rushed west to get rich were known as what?
49'ers
The first American settlement on what coast?
Pacific
Trappers who lived in the Oregon Country were known as what?
Mountain Men
Santa Anna marched on a town in Texas. The Texas Revolution had begun.
(month and year)
October 1835
How much did Slidell offer for California and New Mexico?
$30 million
People built temporary _____ that lacked order.
Boom town
They bargained with traders from Missouri, whom they met at meeting places are called what?
Rendezvous
Where did the Mountain Men pave pathways through?
The west
In March 1836, Texas Volunteers and Mexican troops clashed at an empty mission in what?
Alamo
What did President Polk tell Congress about Mexico?
Mexico had invaded our territory and shed American blood upon the American soil.
California became the 31st state in what year
1850
Beginning in about 1800, the Oregon Country, with its wealth of fur-bearing animals attracted what?
Trappers