Vocabulary
People who leave their country to settle somewhere else.
What are emigrants?
This famous trail helped settlers travel west to Oregon.
What is the Oregon Trail?
This mission became famous during the Texas Revolution.
What is the Alamo?
This treaty ended the Mexican-American War in 1848.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Mexico gave up California and this large territory after the war.
What is the New Mexico Territory?
A covered wagon used by pioneers heading west.
What is a prairie schooner?
The United States shared Oregon with this country under joint occupation.
What is Great Britain?
This Texan leader became the first president of Texas.
Who is Sam Houston?
The United States claimed Texas ended at this river.
What is the Rio Grande?
After expansion, the nation’s western border reached this ocean.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
A Texan of Hispanic or Mexican descent.
What is a Tejano?
This treaty caused Spain to give up its claims in Oregon.
What is the Adams-Onís Treaty?
This Mexican general led the army against Texas.
Who is Santa Anna?
Mexico claimed Texas ended at this river.
What is the Nueces River?
This president strongly supported expansion into Oregon and Texas.
Who is James K. Polk?
A large ranch or estate in the American West.
What is a rancho?
The Oregon border was finally set at this line of latitude.
What is 49° North?
Texas won independence after this battle.
What is the Battle of San Jacinto?
The United States wanted California partly to trade with this continent.
What is Asia?
This newspaper editor coined the term Manifest Destiny.
Who is John O’Sullivan?
The belief that the United States should expand westward to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This campaign slogan demanded all of Oregon territory.
What is “Fifty-four Forty or Fight!”?
Before joining the United States, Texas was called this republic.
What is the Lone Star Republic?
The United States paid Mexico this amount for land after the war.
What is $15 million?
After the war, the dream of this belief became reality.
What is Manifest Destiny?