Transportation
Trains were invented here.
What is England?
Van Buren was defeated after one term to this Whig candidate who died 30 days after his inauguration.
Who was William Henry Harrison?
The people who made the most money from the California Gold Rush sold this.
What are supplies to pan for gold?
He was the president who aggressively pursued expansion, promised he would only serve one term, and encouraged the Mexican American War to accomplish this goal.
Who was James K. Polk?
He became president after James K. Polk, his nickname was old "rough and ready" because of his sloppy appearance. He was a slaveholder from Louisiana, and a hero of the Mexican American War. He never voted, even in his own election.
Who was Zachary Taylor?
New Jersey inventor and entrepreneur John Stevens had one of the first trains in the United States, around his estate in this New Jersey city across the Hudson River from NYC.
What is Hoboken?
Who was John Tyler?
These were the American settlers that came across the country when they heard that gold was discovered in California.
Who were the 49ers?
The Mexican General mislead his troops and made decisions that made victory for the Americans far more possible in the Mexican American War.
Who was Santa Ana?
He was a vice-president was without a party and called "his accidentcy" because William Henry Harrison died.
Who was John Tyler?
This midwestern Illinois city would become the center (literally) of the American train network to connect the east and west.
What is Chicago?
Most of the American white settlers who moved to Texas when it was part of Mexico, and then became independent of Mexico, were in favor of slavery and becoming a state.
True or False?
What is true?
The state government of California and federal government of the United States placed these on Indian people in California to eliminate their population from the land in California near where gold was discovered.
What are bounties?
This young congressman (and future president) from Illinois spoke against going to war against Mexico, and called out the claim about the border being at the Rio Grande River.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
Two future presidents were veterans of the Mexican American War.
Who were Zachary Taylor and Ulysses S. Grant?
These had to be established for train schedules, safety and agreement about the timing of arrivals and departures.
What are time zones?
What is the Rio Grande?
These people were landholders in California when it was part of Mexico, and much of their land was taken by squatters who came with the gold rush.
Who were the Californios?
This treaty ended the Mexican American War, and in it Mexico lost 1/2 of its territory including California, New Mexico, Arizona, and parts of Nevada, Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
He would become president because Zachary Taylor died in 1850 due to intestinal problems.
Who was Millard Fillmore?
There were far more train tracks in this region of the United States by 1860.
What was the North?
Mexico had outlawed this, which was part of the reason Texas broke away from Mexico and declared independence.
What is slavery?
This was who armed with 49ers with knives and guns as they made their way to California.
Who were the United States Army?
In 1854, this purchase was made to complete a southern portion of the Transcontinental Railroad and gained the rest of present day Arizona and New Mexico for $10 million dollars from Mexico.
What was the Gadsden Purchase?
James K. Polk had been an insider and learned much about how to govern from this former president that he had served under.
Who was Andrew Jackson?