What's that word?
This is the addition of a country or territory into another country or territory.
What is annexation?
This Texas president was led the Texas armies during the Texas Revolution and was known for his tight budget.
Who is Sam Houston?
This is the border the United States believed separated Mexico from the United States in the 1840s.
What is the Rio Grande River?
This territory is annexed to the United States after fighting for their independence.
What is Texas?
This region is known for being hot and humid and has rainfall.
What is the coastal plains region?
This is a disagreement, argument, or debate.
What is a dispute?
This Texas president was known as the "Father of Education."
Who is Mirabeau Lamar?
This is the border that Mexico believed separated the United States from Mexico.
What is the Nueces River?
This territory was added to finish construction of the Transcontinental Railroad.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
This is the Spanish explorer that conquers the Aztec.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
This is the making of amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged.
What is reparations?
This is the Mexican general who uses Mexico's defeats in the Mexican-American War to make a comeback.
Who is Santa Anna?
These are the two capitals Texas had during the Republic of Texas.
What are Houston and Austin?
This territory was added to the United States with the signing of the Treaty of Hidalgo.
What is the Mexican Cession?
This is what happened to the population of the United States during Westward Expansion.
What is the population grew?
This is a formally concluded and ratified agreement between two countries.
What is a treaty?
This is the Texas president that annexes Texas to the United States and has much of the same beliefs as Sam Houston.
Who is Anson Jones?
This is the ocean America was trying to reach during Manifest Destiny.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This territory doubled the size of the United States and gave the US access to the Mississippi River.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This is the name of the first event that shows Texas wanted to be independent from Mexico.
What is the Fredonian Rebellion?
This established the line between free and slave states.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This is the United States president that annexes Texas and believes in Manifest Destiny.
Who is James Polk?
These five states include land that was sold by Texas to the United States.
What are Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, and Kansas.
This territory was added to the United States with the signing of the Adams-Onis Treaty.
What is Florida?
This is a person who is given lots of land with the purpose of convincing people to settle and colonize the land.
What is an empresario?