This was a 2100-mile trail that started in Fort Independence, Missouri that ended on the West Coast
What is the Oregon Trail?
John Q. Adams purchased this territory from the Spanish
What is the state of Florida?
What country fought for and won its independence from Spain in 1821?
What is the country of Mexico?
He was president when Texas formally became a state after nine years of independence (hint: he is President number 11)
Who is James K. Polk?
Gold was discovered in 1848 in this state
What is California?
Travelers on the Oregon Trail traveled using this form of transportation
What is a covered wagon?
Name one reason why Americans decided to move West
Acceptable answers:
Escape religious persecution
Find new markets for commerce
Claim land for farming, ranching, and mining
Locate harbors on the Pacific
Seek employment and avoid creditors after panic of 1837
Spread the virtues of democracy
What were the goals of the Spanish mission system?
To convert Native Americans into Roman Catholics
This was the very first war the U.S. fought outside of its own territory
What is the Mexican-American War?
This was a new religion founded in upstate NY when its founder claimed to have discovered three golden tablets
What is Mormonism?
How many miles per hour could a covered wagon travel?
President Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Territory from this nation
What is France?
These were agents who were given enormous amounts of land in order to attract American settlers to Texas
What are empresarios?
The United States initially did not want Texas to join the Union because of this issue, which divided the North and the South
What is slavery?
He was the founder of Mormonism and was killed by a mob in Illinois in 1844
Who is Joseph Smith?
What year did Oregon become a state?
Originally, the United States only wanted to buy this port city
What is the city of New Orleans?
These are Texans of Mexican descent
Who are Tejanos?
The United States captured this city during the Mexican American War, ending the conflict with a victory for the United States
What is Mexico City?
After the death of Joseph Smith, he became the new leader of the Mormon religion
Who is Brigham Young?
This illness was a bacterial infection of the small intestine
What is cholera?
This animal was by the Sioux, Commanche and other Plains Indians for food and shelter
What is the Buffalo?
These were the English-speaking people from the United States who settled in Texas
Who are Anglos?
This state revolts against Mexican rule in 1847, establishing itself as the Bear Flag Republic
What is California?
What state did the Mormons eventually settle in?
What is Utah?
This was an inflammatory disorder of the intestine, especially of the colon, that results in severe diarrhea containing mucus and/or blood in the feces with fever and abdominal pain
What is dysentery?
What is represented by the lady in white?
What is the country of America?
This battle involved 200 outnumbered Texans making a last stand against 5,000 Mexican soldiers at this former Spanish fort/mission
What is the Alamo?
This treaty ends the Mexican American War
What is the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
What college in Utah is named after Brigham Young?
What is Brigham Young University?
This was a 1990 videogame that depicted the hardships and decisions travelers were forced to make as they traveled to the Oregon territory
What is the Oregon Trail?
This was the belief that the United States would inevitably expand westward to the Pacific Ocean and into Mexican territory
What is manifest destiny?
He was the first president of the Republic of Texas
Who is Sam Houston?
The territory Mexico loses as a result of the war is known as the...
What is the Mexican cession?
True or False: most gold prosectors did not become wealthy from the gold rush. Instead, General Store owners benefited the most
True!
This was a trail that travelers used to go to New Mexico
What is the Santa Fe trail?
This was a train route across the United States, finished in 1869
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
He was the leader of Mexico during the Texan Revolution
Who is Santa Anna?
Name one state that was formerly Mexican territory
Texas, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Colorado
This was a small piece of land that was bought from Mexico in 1853 in order to build a Transcontinental Railroad
What is the Gadsden Purchase?