People
Ranch hand whose discovery of gold led to the California Gold Rush
James Marshall
Towns that became empty and deserted after gold miners moved on
Ghost towns
President who purchased Florida from Spain
James Monroe
Name the Spanish mission in San Antonio, Texas, where Texans and other Americans fought the Mexican army to the last man.
The Alamo
I saved important papers and Washington's portrait
Dolly Madison
Most famous missionaries to Oregon
Dr. Marcus and Narcissa Whitman
This included Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, as well as parts of Montana and Wyoming
Oregon Territory
Dictator of Mexico who led Mexican forces at the Alamo
Santa Anna
What tract of land nearly doubled the size of the United States?
Louisiana Purchase
I was President during the War of 1812
James Madison
First U.S. diplomatic representative to Japan; his Harris Treaty opened Japan for trade and to Christian missionaries
Townsend Harris
Nickname for the miners who took part in the California Gold Rush
Forty-niners
Frontiersman from Tennessee who helped the Texans fight at the Alamo
Davy Crockett
Which treaty officially ended the War of 1812?
Treaty of Ghent
I preached to wounded Confederate soldiers and to the Virginia General Assembly
John Jasper
U.S. Marine who later became first Baptist missionary
Jonathan Goble
Land ceded to the U.S. by Mexico at the end of the Mexican War; includes California, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Wyoming and Colorado
Mexican Cession
Defeated Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto and later became president of Texas
General Sam Houston
Name the place where gold was found in California in 1848.
John Sutter's ranch
I started New York City's first Sunday School
Catherine Ferguson
Sent by President Fillmore with a fleet of navy ships to open Japan for trade
Commodore Matthew Perry
A strip of land purchased from Mexico in order to build a railroad through the Southwest; New Mexico and Arizona
Gadsden Purchase
Defeated the British at the Battle of New Orleans
General Andrew Jackson
Independence, Missouri; 2,000 miles long
I was a minuteman, patriot, and a preacher
Lemuel Haynes