Oregon Territory
New Mexico Territory
Texas
Mexico
California
100
Mountain men moved West in search of this.
What are furs?
100
Trading city in New Mexico that become such an important destination, that the trail to get there had the same name.
What is Sana Fe?
100
The Texas territory was owned by ________________ in the early 1800's.
What is Mexico?
100
In _________________ Mexico gained its independence from Spain
What is 1821?
100
This country owned California before 1848.
What is Mexico?
200
Fur traders met at the _________________ with trappers.
What is a rendez-vous?
200
Native American tribes living in the New Mexico Territory before the Spanish arrived in the area.
What are the Pueblo?
What are the Zuni?
What are the Apaches?
200
After Texans won independence from Mexico, they nicknamed their nation.
What is the Lone Star Republic?
200
Worried about a war with Mexico, the United States initially refused to annex _______________.
What is Texas?
200
These early settlements dotted the California coast. Many Native Americans were forced to work there.
What are missions?
300
The biggest threat to settlers travelling along the 2,000 mile Oregon Trail.
What is disease?
300
The climate in the New Mexico Territory.
What is Hot?
What is dry?
300
Mexicans who lived in Texas
Tejanos
300
War with Mexico broke out in 1846. By 1848 the Mexicans were forced to sign this treaty.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
300
The discovery of_____________ radically changed California almost overnight.
What is gold?
400
After 1846, this became the northern border of Oregon.
What is the 49th parallel?
400
The group of people following Brigham Young who found safety in the isolated Great Salt Lake valley.
Who are the Mormons?
400
Person who was granted land and brought 300 families to settle Texas.
Who was Stephen Austin?
400
The border between Mexico and Texas was disputed. The two rivers that marked the disputed boundaries were ___________________ and _______________.
What is the Rio Grande?
What is the Nueces?
400
To fight rising crime and lawlessness, self-appointed law enforcers began to deal out punishments.
What are vigilantes?
500
These U.S. States, or parts of them, were once part of the Oregon territory.
What are Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Washington, and Montana
500
What U.S. states, or parts of them, were once part of the New Mexico Territory?
What are Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado?
500
Theses first white settlers agreed to two things when the moved into Texas territory.
What is becoming Roman Catholic? What is becoming a Mexican citizen?
500
The U.S. paid Mexico $10 million for this strip of land.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
500
During the Mexican War, rebellions in California obtained independence. Californians named their new nation.
What is the Bear Flag Republic?