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Land
Fights
Disputes
Who?
What?
100
What region was the Mexican Cession Land located in?
What is the Southwest
100

Belief that it was the United States’ destiny to stretch from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.

What is Manifest Destiny?
100
The whole Mexican Cession dispute was between these two countries.
What is America and Mexico
100
This person founded Mormon religion.

Who is Joseph Smith?

100

Cession means.....?

What is Something that is given up.

200
The border of this state was highly disputed over.
What is Texas
200

What trail was used to go West where people wanted gold or silver and carried weapons since it was dangerous?

What is Santa Fe Trail?

200
This war was sparked by border dispute
What is the Mexican-American War
200

Who were the agents that sold land for Mexico to attract more American settlers?

Who were empresarios?

200

When Santa Anna attacked, all the defenders in this building died. 

What is ALAMO?

300

Who had the slogan "Fifty-Four Forty or FIGHT!"?

Who is James K. Polk?
300

Polk sends him to negotiate the border but Mexican government ignored him. 

Who is John Slidell?

300

What does annex mean?

What is to incorporate the land?
300
_____________ had a strict goal to expand the country.
Who is President Polk
300
When the gold was discovered in Sutter's sawmill, people from the U.S, Europe, Asia rushed to get gold.
What is California Gold Rush?
400

What is the place neither Native Americans nor white settlers dominate?

What is the Middle Ground?

400

What did Mexico offer to agents to attract more American settlers?

What are land grants?

400

Southern portion of New Mexico and Arizona was bought for 10 million dollars in1853?

What is Gadsden Purchase?

400

Who was Mexican president that imprisoned Austin?

Who is Santa Anna?

400

This is where Spanish people lived with Natives to convert Native Americans.

What is mission?

500

What is the trail that started from Independence, MO and where traders loaded their covered wagons with cloth, knives, and guns?

What is Santa Fe Trail?

500

What was the battle cry of the Texans during the Texas Revolution?

"Remember the Alamo!"

500

After Santa Anna revoked local powers in Texas (by sending Austin to jail) and other Mexican states, several rebellions erupted. What was this called?

What is Texas Revolution?

500
Polk ordered this person to march into Santa Fe? (This person was born in NJ)

Who is Stephen Kearny?

500
This treaty ended the Mexican-American war.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
600

What treaty gave Native Americans control over the Central Plains?

What is Treaty of Fort Laramie?

600

More than 50,000 people rushed to California in 1849. What do we call the people who came to California in this year?

What are Forty-Niners?

600

What is the war that ended with Illinois militia members slaughtering more than 200 Sauk and Fox people?

What is Black Hawk War?

600
Who was the general who led troops into Mexico (hint: he became president after Polk)
Who is Zachary Taylor
600

People who went to California to find gold in 1849 are called...?

What is Forty-Niners?