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100
The language used to interpret messages from the telegraph.
What is Morse Code?
100
Spreading liberty out West.
What is Manifest Destiny?
100
In 1836, Santa Anna's army overran the Texas rebels in this famous mission turned fort.
What is the Alamo?
100
"Old Rough and Ready"
Who is Zachary Taylor?
100
Nickname of the Gold Rush pioneers?
What are Forty-Niners?
200
The economic system in which private individuals control the means of production.
What is capitalism?
200
Pioneers took these types of wagons West.
What are Conestoga wagons?
200
Two Leaders at this battle located in San Antonio.
Who are Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, and William Travis?
200
"Old Fuss and Feathers"
Who is Winfield Scott?
200
Location of the first gold found.
What is Sutter's Mill?
300
Farmer began to shift from self-sufficiency to this, raising one or two crops to maximize overall production.
What is specialization?
300
Abraham Lincoln fought in this war against Native Americans in Eastern Iowa.
What is the Black Hawk War?
300
Founder of the Old Three Hundred Colony in Texas.
Who is Stephen F. Austin?
300
This treaty ended the Mexican War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
300
Levi Strauss made these to help work in the mines.
What are jeans?
400
This country was a major importer of Southern cotton.
What is Great Britain?
400
The Oregon Trail left from this city.
What is Independence?
400
Sam Houston defeated the Mexicans at this famous battle.
What is the Battle of San Jacinto?
400
Before becoming a state, Texas was an independent nation. Name the other state that had a similar history.
What is California?
400
The man who first found gold in California.
Who is James Marshall?
500
Creator of the telegraph.
Who is Joseph Henry?
500
This was the shape used by traders on the Santa Fe Trail to fortify themselves against Native American war parties.
What is diamond?
500
This treaty made Texas the Lone Star Republic.
What is the Treaty of Velasco?
500
This small piece of Arizona was bought after the Mexican War. It solidified the Southern borders of the modern day.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
500
From the growth of settlements in California, this man was able to fund a small university known worldwide today.
What is Stanford?