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Polk issued orders to General, to march to the Rio Grande and blockade the river.
What is Zachary Taylor?
They Believed that their movement westward and southward was destined and ordained by God.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Santa Anna revoked local powers in Texas and other Mexican states, several rebellions erupted.
What is Texas Revolution?
The prospectors who flocked California in 1849, were people from Asia, South America, and Europe.
What is Gold Rush?
1821, led the first of several groups of American settlers to a fertile area.
What is Stephen F. Austin?
Stared in Independence, Missouri, and ended up Portland, Oregon, in the Willamette Valley.
What is Oregon Trail?
Texas became the 28th state in the Union.
What is December 29, 1845?
Along with the settlement of Oregon and the treaty, it established the current borders of the lower 48 states.
What is Gadsden Purchase?
Mexican government and the territorial aspirations of the U.S. president.
What is James K. Polk?
They were seeking new economic opportunities.
What is Lumbers, trappers, and miners wish to capitalize the resources?
Houston became president.
What is Republic of Texas?
Mexico agreed to the Rio Grande border of Texas and ceded New Mexico and California to the United States.
What is Treaty of Guadalupe of Hidalgo?
The Mormon history began in western New York, established the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1830.
What is Joseph Smith and five associates?
The Black Hawk War started.
What is Illinois and spread to the Wisconsin Territory?
The Texans attacked and drove the Mexicans from this place in 1835.
What is The Alamo?
Rebels proudly declared their independence from Mexico and proclaimed the nation.
What is the Republic of California?
Joseph Smith's successor.
What is Brigham Young?
James K. Polk to campaign in 1844 on the promise of annexing the entire territory.
What is Fifty-Four Forty or Fight?
In 1821, and again in 1823 and 1824, Mexico offered enormous, to agents.
What is land grants?
Flocked to California in 1849.
What is forty-niners?