Oregon Country
What was the name of the 2000 mile journey that families took to get to Oregon?
Oregon Trail
What year was Texas annexed to the United States?
1845
What was the name of the General that would become President that led attacks on the Seminoles in Florida?
Andrew Jackson or Jackson
What year was the Louisiana Purchase?
1803
A person who dies for a cause.
Martyr.
To add a territory to one's own territory.
Annex
The belief that United States was destined to spread its boundaries and freedom from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
Manifest Destiny
Why did Mexico close its borders to Americans in 1830?
Americans refused to follow Mexican rules or refused to learn Spanish or refused to stop bringing slaves.
Why did farmers or planters move from Virginia, Georgia and the Carolina's to Florida?
They had worn out their soil
Which Country did the United States buy Louisiana from?
France.
President Polk sent a government official to Mexico to try and buy a portion of Mexico for $30 million dollars. What did Mexico do?
They refused to even meet.
A Texan of Latin American, often Mexican descent
Tejano
Why did the Native Americans massacre the Whitman's and eleven others on the Oregon Trail?
Measles or diseases killed many Native Americans, especially children and the Indians blamed the Whitman's
What was the name of the Mexican leader?
Santa Anna
What was the name of the Treaty that gave Florida to the United States?
Adams-Onis Treaty.
Who was the President during the Louisiana Purchase?
Thomas Jefferson.
What did President Polk do to start a War with Mexico?
Sent U.S. troops into Mexican or disputed border territory, where Mexican troops fired on U.S. troops
A person who acts as police, judge, and jury without formal legal authority.
Vigilante
A canvas-covered wagon used by pioneers in the mid-1800's?
Prairie schooner
What was the name of the fort or mission where 180 Texans fought for 13 days against a Mexican Army?
The Alamo
Enslaved persons made up how much of the population of Florida in 1837?
half or 50 percent
What did Spain stop American farmers from doing before giving Louisiana to France.
The Spanish stopped American farmers from using the Mississippi River and New Orleans to ship goods.
What did the United States make the Gadsden Purchase?
To build a railroad.
A fast growing community.
Boomtown
Name the four countries that claimed the Oregon Country in the 1800's?
Great Britain, United States, Spain and Russia
Why did Mexico outlaw in 1829 that Americans ignored?
Slavery.
Why did Florida have to wait six years to become a state?
They had to wait for a free state to join to keep the balance
Jefferson decided that the territory could be purchased through the negotiation of a .......?
Treaty.
What was the name of the Treaty that ended the Mexican-American War in 1848?
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Giving up or surrendering something (such as land), often as a result of war.
Cession