Texas
Texas belonged to this country as Americans started to settle there.
What is Mexico?
Dictator and General of Mexico.
Who was Santa Anna?
Year California became a state.
What was 1850?
These states formed the area of the Gadsden Purchase.
What are Arizona and New Mexico?
Name for a town that grows very quickly.
What is a boomtown?
These people were of Mexican descent born in Texas.
Who were Tejanos?
These two men were responsible for obtaining a land grant a forming the first American settlement in Texas.
Who were Moses and Stephen Austin?
Year Utah became a state ?
What is 1896?
The number of square miles the Gadsden Purchase made up.
What is 29,670?
State where the Oregon Trail started.
What is Missouri?
He led the Texas army against Mexico.
Who was Sam Houston?
He coined the Phrase Manifest Destiny.
Who was John L. O'Sullivan?
Year Oregon became a state.
What is 1859?
The person responsible for the Gadsden Purchase.
Who was James Gadsden?
What are three states gained as part of the Mexican Cession.
What are California, Nevada, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah?
Location of a key 13 day battle lost by the Texans.
What is the Alamo?
Former slave that turned guide and fur trapper.
Who was Jim Beckwourth?
Year Colorado became a state.
What was 1876?
Primary reason for the purchase.
What is to build a railroad from Texas to California.
The river in California where gold was first found.
What is the American River?
Draw and label a Texas flag.
One vertical blue bar on the end with a white star, two horizontal bars white over red.
He was the president during the Mexican War.
Who was James K. Polk?
Year old Colorado City became the territorial capital of Colorado.
What is 1859?
The price of the Gadsden Purchase.
What is $10,000,000?
Treaty that ended the Mexican-American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?