Oregon
Manifest Destiny
Texas Independence
Mexican American War
Western Expansion
100

This was a 2100-mile trail that started in Fort Independence, Missouri that ended on the West Coast

What is the Oregon Trail?

100

John Q. Adams purchased this territory from the Spanish

What is the state of Florida?

100

What country fought for and won its independence from Spain in 1821?

What is the country of Mexico?

100

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?

100

Gold was discovered in 1848 in this state

What is California?

200

Travelers on the Oregon Trail traveled using this form of transportation

What is a covered wagon?

200

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

200

What were the goals of the Spanish mission system?

To convert Native Americans into Roman Catholics

200

This was the very first war the U.S. fought outside of its own territory 

What is the Mexican-American War?

200

This was a new religion founded in upstate NY when its founder claimed to have discovered three golden tablets

What is Mormonism?

300

How many miles per hour could a covered wagon travel? 

2 miles an hour
300

President Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Territory from this nation

What is France?

300

These were agents who were given enormous amounts of land in order to attract American settlers to Texas

What are empresarios?

300

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?

300

He was the founder of Mormonism and was killed by a mob in Illinois in 1844

Who is Joseph Smith?

400

What year did Oregon become a state?

What is the year 1859
400

Originally, the United States only wanted to buy this port city

What is the city of New Orleans?

400

These are Texans of Mexican descent

Who are Tejanos?

400

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?

400

After the death of Joseph Smith, he became the new leader of the Mormon religion

Who is Brigham Young?

500

This illness was a bacterial infection of the small intestine

What is cholera?

500

This animal was by the Sioux, Commanche and other Plains Indians for food and shelter

What is the Buffalo?

500

These were the English-speaking people from the United States who settled in Texas

Who are Anglos?

500

This state revolts against Mexican rule in 1847, establishing itself as the Bear Flag Republic

What is California?

500

What state did the Mormons eventually settle in?

What is Utah?

600

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?

600

What is represented by the lady in white?

What is the country of America?

600

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?

600

This treaty ends the Mexican American War

What is the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

600

What college in Utah is named after Brigham Young?

What is Brigham Young University?

700

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?

700

This was the belief that the United States would inevitably expand westward to the Pacific Ocean and into Mexican territory

What is manifest destiny?

700

He was the first president of the Republic of Texas

Who is Sam Houston?

700

The territory Mexico loses as a result of the war is known as the...

What is the Mexican cession?

700

True or False: most gold prosectors did not become wealthy from the gold rush. Instead, General Store owners benefited the most

True!

800

This was a trail that travelers used to go to New Mexico

What is the Santa Fe trail?

800

This was a train route across the United States, finished in 1869

What is the Transcontinental Railroad?

800

He was the leader of Mexico during the Texan Revolution

Who is Santa Anna?

800

Name one state that was formerly Mexican territory

Texas, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Colorado

800

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?