Westward Movement
The 19th-century belief that the United States was divinely ordained to expand its borders from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The 1836 siege and battle at a San Antonio mission where approximately 180 to 250 defenders, including Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, were killed.
What is the Battle of the Alamo?
The decisive 18-minute battle in 1836 in which Texan forces defeated Santa Anna's army to secure Texas independence.
What is the Battle of San Jacinto?
The disputed river boundary between Texas and Mexico- Texas believes that this river is the boundary between Texas and Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande?
The principle that allowed residents of the Utah and New Mexico territories to vote on whether to permit slavery.
(Hint- same idea utilized in the Kansas-Nebraska Act)
What is popular sovereignty?
The 1853 land acquisition in present-day southern Arizona and New Mexico purchased to build a Southern transcontinental railroad route.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
The Mexican General and President who led troops against Texan rebels during the Texas Revolution.
Who was Antonio López de Santa Anna?
Famous frontiersman and former Tennessee congressman who died defending the Alamo in March 1836.
Who is Davy Crockett?
The disputed river boundary between Texas and Mexico- Mexico believes that this river is the boundary between Texas and Mexico.
What is the Nueces River?
Kentucky senator known as the "Great Compromiser" who crafted the Missouri Compromise of 1820 AND the Compromise of 1850.
Who is Henry Clay?
The NC-born U.S. President nicknamed "Young Hickory" who achieved all major territorial expansion goals during a single term (1845–1849).
Who was James K. Polk?
The military and political leader who served as commander of the Texan Army and became the first official President of the Republic of Texas.
Who was Sam Houston?
Before U.S. annexation in 1845, Texas existed as an independent country officially known by this name.
What is the Republic of Texas?
OR- The Lone Star Republic
This expansionist U.S. President ran on the campaign slogan "54° 40' or Fight!" regarding the Oregon Territory boundary dispute.
Who is James K. Polk?
Under the Missouri Compromise, slavery was banned in the remaining Louisiana Purchase territory north of this line of latitude.
What is 36°30' N?
The presidential campaign slogan used by James K. Polk in 1844 to demand U.S. ownership of the entire Oregon Territory up to Alaska's border.
What is "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!"?
The rally cry adopted by Texas forces after the brutal losses at San Antonio and Goliad.
What is "Remember the Alamo!" (or "Remember Goliad!")?
The 1836 battle where Sam Houston’s Texan forces defeated Santa Anna’s army in just 18 minutes, securing Texas's independence.
What is the Battle of San Jacinto?
This US President asks Congress for a declaration of war against Mexico.
Who is James K. Polk?
Purchased in 1853 for $10 million, this strip of land in southern Arizona and New Mexico was acquired to build a southern transcontinental railroad.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
The newspaper editor who coined the phrase "Manifest Destiny" in 1845.
Who was John O'Sullivan?
The three major conditions that the Mexican government required Anglo settlers in Texas to accept in the 1820s, which were widely ignored by American immigrants.
What was learning to speak Spanish, converting to Catholicism and outlawing/prohibiting slavery?
Frontiersman, brawler, carries a big hunting knife, very sick and killed in his bed at the Alamo.
Who was James Bowie?
Signed in 1848, this treaty ended the Mexican-American War and handed over 500,000 square miles of territory to the U.S. for $15 million.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Under the Compromise of 1850, this western state was admitted directly into the Union as a free state.
What is California?