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Manifest Destiny
Texas and Oregon
Mexican- American War
The Gold Rush
Miscellaneous
100
This was the belief that Americans had that God gave them the right to move west and take over land.
What was Manifest Destiny?
100
This trail stretched from Independence Missouri to Portland Oregon.
What is the Oregon Trail?
100
The Mexican American war REALLY started in this state in 1835.
What is Texas?
100
This year was the first year during which the Gold Rush occurred.
What is 1848 (or 1849)?
100
Many Americans acted on their belief in Manifest Destiny by moving _______.
What is WEST?
200
This party lost half of its members on its way West, and some of them engaged in cannibalism.
Who are the Donner Party?
200
This is the reason most people traveled to Oregon.
What is for LAND/ fertile soil?
200
This was the treaty signed by Mexico and America to end the Mexican American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?
200
Easterners who came a year after the gold rush began were called this.
What are 49ers?
200
This was a type of Mexicano entertainment in the South West (be as specific as possible-- more than one answer could be correct!).
What is rodeo, corridor, fandango, Cinco De Mayo, fiestas?
300
This was the type of transportation that Americans used to cross the West.
What is the (covered) wagon?
300
This man was the dictator and General of Mexico during the Texan Revolt.
Who is General Santa Ana?
300
American troops were sent to this border between America and Mexico (Hint: named after a river!)
What is the Rio Grande?
300
Many Chinese miners had to pay a higher _____ to mine on land in California.
What is a (Foreign Miners) Tax?
300
This is the length of time it took Texas to become independent from Mexico (the length of the Texas War for Independence). _______ years
What is 9 years (1836-1845)?
400
These people moved west to convert Native Americans to Christianity.
Who are Missionaries?
400
This American brought 300 families to Texas, and a city in Texas is named after him.
Who is (Stephen F.) Austin?
400
This man was president during the Mexican American War.
Who is James K. Polk
400
Mexicanos invented this, which helped many miners.
What is a gold mining pan?
400
In 1829, Mexico did this, which upset many Texians (Americans).
What is "outlaw slavery"?
500
This religious group was forced West by religious persecution and ended up in Salt Lake City.
Who are the Mormons?
500
This was a saying in Texas after American's defeat at the Alamo.
What is "Remember the Alamo!"
500
This land was added to America after the Mexican American war (NOT what states, what the land ADDED was called!)
What was the Mexican CESSION?
500
This man invented jeans by sewing together canvas tents in mining camps to make more durable pants.
Who is Levi Strauss?
500
The Donner Party's wagon broke in these mountains, and they ended up eating each other.
What are the Sierra Nevada Mountains?