People
Who was the president of Texas?
Sam Houston
Who was the first president to die while in office?
William Henry Harrison
the people who rushed to California in search of gold?
forty-niners
What was the battle cry at the Battle of San Jacinto?
Name two advantages the Americans hand in the Mexican-American War.
1. better guns and cannons
2. Better leaders
Who was the founder of the Mormon religion?
Jospeh Smith
Who was a doctor to the Cayuse people?
Marcus Whitman
What caused Calfornia's population increase in 1849?
gold rush
People in Texas decided to fight against Santa Anna to bring back what?
THe Mexican Constitution of 1824
Name one advantage the Mexicans had in the Mexican-American War.
1. more soldiers
2. controlled a tall hill
3. blocked the road leading to Mexico City
Who was the leader of the Mormons who took them into the Great Salt Lake area?
Brigham Young
Who wanted to increase the borders of the United States?
James K. Polk
Why did slave owners NOT take their slaves to California?
They feared the slaves would run away to mine for gold
What year was the Mexican-American War fought?
1846
What is the beleif that God gave Americans all the land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans called?
Manifest Destiny
President of Mexico?
Santa Anna
What is a person who gets natural resoureces from the earth called?
Miner
Pioneers
What did America gain as a result of the Mexican-American War?
More land
Which President replaced the Whigs with Democrats in the national government?
John Tyler
Who wrote Christian writings and songs in the Nez Perce language?
Henry and Eliza Spalding
Who gained the most money from the California Gold Rush?
Merchants
This is used to measure the actual distance between two places on a map
Map Scale
What did some Americans dislike about how Polk started the Mexican-American War?
(Hint: there are 2)
1. They thought the war was unjust.
2. They thought it was the wrong way to get land.
Who wanted to increase the boarders of the United States?
James K. Polk