Mexican American War
This U.S. president led the country during the Mexican-American War.
Who was James K. Polk?
This belief it was America’s destiny to expand westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This former enslaved person became a famous abolitionist speaker and writer.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This battle cry became famous after the fall of a Texas fort in 1836.
What is “Remember the Alamo”?
This disputed river boundary helped spark the war between the U.S. and Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande?
This 1848 discovery brought a rush of settlers to California.
This law required citizens to help capture escaped enslaved people.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This state was fighting for independence from Mexico during the Battle of the Alamo.
This law, passed in 1830, authorized the removal of Native Americans from their lands.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This 1848 treaty ended the Mexican-American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This trail was a major route settlers used to travel west. Hope you don't catch Dysentery!
What is the Oregon Trail?
This compromise allowed California as a free state but strengthened the Fugitive Slave Law.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This Mexican general led the forces that defeated the Texans at the Alamo.
Who is Antonio López de Santa Anna?
This compromise line, established in 1820, divided free and slave territories at latitude 36°30′.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This large land acquisition from Mexico included present-day California and Arizona.
What is the Mexican Cession?
This law gave settlers 160 acres of land if they lived on and improved it.
What is the Homestead Act?
This Supreme Court case ruled that African Americans were not citizens and had no rights.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This frontiersman and former Tennessee congressman died defending the Alamo.
Who is Davy Crockett?
This purchase in 1853 added land to southern Arizona and New Mexico.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
This future American President led the US Cavalry past the then-Texas border.
Who was Zachary Taylor?
This agreement attempted to settle the issue of slavery in new territories by using popular sovereignty.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This raid by John Brown was intended to start a widespread slave rebellion.
What is the raid on Harpers Ferry?
This later battle secured Texas independence shortly after the Alamo.
What is the Battle of San Jacinto?
This slogan demanded U.S. control of all Oregon Territory
What is “54°40′ or Fight!”?