Topic 7 Section 3
President of the US that pushed for the Indian Removal Act.
Andrew Jackson
US President who ran under the slogan Fifty-Four Forty or Fight.
James K. Polk
American who tried to make peace with Mexican leaders.
Sam Houston
Founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Joseph Smith
Seminole leader who refused to leave but chose to fight.
Osceola
Organizer of the American Fur Company which became the country's leading fur company.
John Jacob Aster
Commander of the Alamo
William B. Travis
A Jewish German immigrant that sold the miners sturdy pants made of denim.
Levi Strauss
Early Mountain Men
Jedediah Smith and James Beckwourth
Representative who proposed a deal with the Mexican Government for California and New Mexico.
John Slidell
Man who took over as head of the Mormons after Smith's death.
Brigham Young
Cherokee Chief who wrote to the US Senate to protest the Treaty of Echota.
John Ross
US President who signed Florida's statehood bill allowing them to become a state in 1845.
John Tyler
General who captured Santa Fe and then went towards California.
Stephen Kearney
Members of the Church of Latter Day Saints.
Mormons
General who arrived with 7000 troops to remove the Cherokee by force.
General Winfield Scott
Missionaries who went to Oregon to provide medical care and convert the Cayuse people.
Dr. Marcuss and Narcissa Whitman
President of Mexico who tried to keep Texas as part of Mexico.
Santa Anna
From Section 6 The brave leaders who defended the Alamo.
Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie