Manifest Destiny
The land purchased from France in 1803 doubling the size of the US
What is the Louisiana Purchase
Mormons followed this man to Utah on the Mormon Trail
Who is Brigham Young
The government's solution to the "Indian Problem"
What is kill the buffalo to end native culture
The location where Santa Anna surrounded and killed Texans
Where is the Alamo
Former civil war soldiers who wrangled cows from Texas to the northern railroads
Who are cowboys
The president who annexed and ceded Texas, Oregon, and California
Who is Pres. James K. Polk
He brought 300 Americans to Texas
Who is Stephen Austin
The 1700 mile chase of the Nez Perce by the US Army
What is the Flight of the Nez Perce
His guidebook gave a false path through mountains to California
Who is John Hastings
Nickname for miners who rushed to find gold in Califorani
Who are the forty-niners
The agreed upon border between the United States and Great Britain (Canada) in the northwest
What is the 49th parallel
His maps of the west drew people to move there
Who is Charles Preuss
The battle that took place between George Custer and the Lakota
The US went back on their word and took the Lakota land after signing this treaty following Red Cloud's War
Who at is the Fort Laramie Treaty
Explorers, trappers and entrepreneurs of the Rockie Mountains
Who are Mountain Men
The man who conceived the idea to build a transcontinental railroad
Who is Theodore Judah
He led African Americans to west from the South
Who is Benjamin Singleton
The massacre led by US Colonel John Chivington of 500-600 Cheyenne
What is the Sand Creek Massacre
This law forced foreign miners to pay a tax in California
What is the 1850 Foreign Miners Act
people and farmers who moved to the Great Plains for land
Who are homesteaders
The treaty signed with Mexico giving the US Texas and California
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848
Missourian Teacher who forged the California Trail
Who is John Bidwell
The final battle between the US and the Native Americans
What is the Battle of Wounded Knee
He swindled the US government out of thousands of dollars to finance the transcontinental railroad
Who is Thomas Durant
The group that engaged in cannibalism when stranded in the Sierra Nevada Mountains
Who is the Donner Party