Vocabulary
I take the law into my own hands.
vigilantes
This Ocean borders me (California) on my western side.
Pacific
All trails westward started here.
Independence, Missouri
Texas is originally owned by this foreign country.
Spain
I am a Mexican that lived in California when California became a U.S. territory.
Californio
I am what it is called when a town grows up seemingly over night.
Boomtown
I am the trail that most emigrants from the west take to get to Oregon Territory. More than 20,000 people will die on my trail.
Oregon Trail
The Mexican people who claim Texas as their home are called this.
Tejanos
I am a huge property owned by Mexicans.
rancho
These were built up and down California's western coast in order to convert Native Americans to Christianity.
Missions
I am a mountain man that knows the western lands. I and my friend often work as guides to travelers seeking the west.
Jim Bridger (or Kit Carson)
Finish the Quote:
"Remember the ____________"
Alamo
Another name for me is a church.
Mission
Missionaries, Marcus and Narcissa Whitman accidently brought small pox to this Native American tribe, killing all of the Tribe's children.
the Cayuse
I am established by William Becknell. I become the "Silk Road" of the West.
The Santa Fe Trail
I was once a Congressman for the United States Government. I died defending the Alamo.
Davy Crockett
I got my name from the year that I traveled to California to search for gold.
Forty-niners
My company still thrives today. I started out making sturdy pants for gold miners in California.
Levi Strauss
You met my friend earlier. I am also mountain man that knows the western lands. I often work as a guide to travelers seeking the west.
Kit Carson (or Jim Bridger)
I am the Mexican General/President that was defeated at the Battle of San Jacinto.
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
I was used to transport people and their belongings across the country, some say I resemble a boat.
prairie schooner
When California gains its independence from Mexico it has the name of the _________________________.
Bear Flag Republic
I am the phrase that Americans use to say that it is our God given right to occupy the country from coast to coast. I was coined by newspaper editor John O'Sullivan.
Manifest Destiny
I am the four things that American settlers must do in order to settle in Texas.
Converty to Catholicism
Learn Spanish
Become Mexican citizens
Not own slaves
I am a person that moved from his/her home country to another country to live for ever (I have no intentions to return to my home country)
emigrant
We are the people who ACTUALLY made it rich during the California Gold Rush.
Merchants selling goods to the gold miners.
Because we took a route that was supposed to be quicker than the California Trail, my party loses weeks of travel time and we end up in a snow storm with 60 foot snow drifts. We are just 30 miles from the plains of California, but most of us die because of the unthinkable...
The Donner Party
I was the Battle that was lost to the Mexicans, but my name became a battle cry for the American Troops in the final battle against Mexico
The Battle at the Alamo
I am a set of laws in a country or state that says how the government should run and how people should behave.
Constitution
My population soars because of all the people that travel to me to search for gold. Most of them stay here even after the gold runs out. My population is quite diverse - meaning people of many nations settle here.
California
This is the largest single migration in U.S. History. We eventually settle in the great Salt Lake region.
Mormon Migration
I am the Battle that ended the War with Mexico.
Battle of San Jacinto