A phrase that expresses the belief that the United States was ordained to expand to the Pacific Ocean and into Mexican and Native American territory
What is "manifest destiny"?
100
A mission and fort in the center of San Antonia.
What is the Alamo?
100
The nation proclaimed by American settlerse in California when they declared their independence from Mexico in 1846.
What is the Republic of California.
100
Found by James Marshall while discovering a few shiny particles lying near John Sutter's sawmill
What is gold?
100
Led the first of several groups of American settlers to a fertile area along the Brazos River
Who is Stephen F. Austin?
200
Stretches for Independence, Missouri, to Oregon City, Oregon.
What is Oregon Trail?
200
The 1836 rebellion in which Texas gained its independence from Mexico.
What is Texas Revolution?
200
Treaty signed by the US and Mexico on February 2nd, 1848
What is Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
200
Revolutionized California's economy
What is the discovery of gold?
200
"Tejas"
What is Texas?
300
One group migrated westward along the Oregon Trail to escape persecution.
Who are the Mormons?
300
The main settlement of the colony
What is San Felipe de Austin?
300
Led an American military exploration party into California, violating Mexico's territory rights in 1845
Who is John C. Fremont?
300
"Go west, young man!"
Who is Horace Greeley?
300
Austin's father
Who is Moses Austin?
400
One of the busiest routes that stretches 780 miles from Independence, Missouri, to Santa Fe in the Mexican Province of New Mexico.
What is Sante Fe Trail?
400
A slaveholder, firmly favored the annexation of Texas.
Who is James K. Polk?
400
Authorized James Gadsden to pay Mexico an additrional $10 million for another piece of territory sound of the Gila River in order to secure a southern railroad route to the Pacific Ocean.
Who is President Franklin Pierce?
400
"A pandemonium of a city."
What is San Fracisco?
400
Recieved a land grant from Spain to establish a colony between the Brazos and Colorado River but died before he was able to carry out his plans?
Who is Moses Austin?
500
Settled the territory disputes in the east and midwest, but the two nations merely continued the joint occupation of the Oregon Territory that they had first established in 1818.
What is The Webster-Ashburton Treaty 1842?
500
Issued 297 land grants to the group that later became known as Texas's Old 300.
Who is Stephen F. Austin?
500
Established the current borders of the contiguous 48 states.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
500
Linked California markets to the expanding markets of the rest of the United States?