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What is Texas
U.S. president who tried to buy land from Mexico.
Who is James K. Polk?
The battle cry of Texans in 1836: "Remember the ______."
What is the Alamo?
Metal whose discovery caused many people to hurry to California.
What is gold?
Bear Flag Republic
What is California?
Body of water that forms California's western border.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Gold seekers who went to California to search for gold.
Who were the 49er's?
Path followed by settlers going to the Northwest.
What is the Oregon Trail?
Groups of settlers traveling west together for protection.
What is a wagon train?
Area in which American settlements led to problems with Mexico.
What is Texas?
The city where 182 Texans died in a battle in 1836.
What is San Antonio?
Dictator of Mexico during Texans' war with Mexico.
Who is Santa Anna?
The idea that God wanted the United States to expand from East to West Coast.
What is manifest destiny?
Land purchased by the U.S. to complete the building of a railroad to connect the East to the West.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
Country that controlled Texas and gave permission to Moses Austin for Americans to settle there.
What is Spain?
The area referred to by the slogan "54-40 or fight".
What was Oregon Territory?
The man who owned a sawmill in California at which gold was discovered.
Who was John Sutter?
Treaty that ended the Mexican/American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Name of the railroad project that would connect the East and West United States; completed in 1869.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
The final major battle that gave Americans control of northern Mexico.
What was the Battle of Buena Vista?
The river that the U.S. wanted as a border between Texas and Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande?
Two famous frontiersmen who died at the Alamo.
Who were Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett?
Term that meant citizens could vote to decide the issue of slavery in their territory.
What is popular soverignty?
This city was called the "Gateway to the West".
What is St. Louis?
Place where Santa Anna faced a major defeat against American military in Texas.
What is San Jacinto?