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100
Texas was a part of this country from 1821 until 1836
What is Mexico?
100
This leader led Mormons West in 1847
Who is Brigham Young?
100
This treaty ended the Mexican American War
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
100
Gold was discovered here in 1848.
What is California? Specifically at Sutter's Mill.
100
The mountain men of Oregon Territory were ____
What is fur trappers?
200
In this battle Santa Anna attacked a former mission in San Antonio, Texas.
What is the Alamo?
200
In 1860 the United States forced Mormons to give up this practice which allows men to have more than one wife.
What is polygamy?
200
This is the term for the idea that the United States should stretch from coast to coast
What is manifest destiny?
200
This person went West to find gold during the gold rush.
What is a forty-niner?
200
Taking land and making it part of your own.
What is annexation?
300
This person was the leader of Texas from 1836-1844.
Who is Sam Houston?
300
This modern-day state is the location where Mormons ended up in the West. This state continues to have a large Mormon population.
What is Utah?
300
As a part of the treaty which ended the Mexican American War, the U.S. paid 15 million for these two states.
What are New Mexico and California
300
Nickname for the state of California.
What is the Bear Flag State?
300
Polk threatened Great Britain for part of this territory in 1846
What is the Oregon Territory
400
This battle ended the Mexican American war by capturing Santa Anna.
What is the battle of San Jacinto?
400
Name the two countries that jointly occupied Oregon.
What is the United States and Great Britain?
400
These two people developed the steamboat.
Who is Robert Fulton and Robert Livingston?
400
Name one of the Mexican rules that the Texas settlers violated.
What is they brought slaves and they did not join the Roman Catholic Church?
400
This Purchase in 1853 bought this narrow strip of lands into the United States - name the states and the Name of the Purchase.
What is the Gadsden Purchase - Arizona and New Mexico?
500
The United States claimed that this river was the boundary between Mexico and the United States
What is the Rio Grande River?
500
Where did the Oregon Trail start?
What is Independence, Missouri?
500
Transportation project from Albany, NY to Buffalo, NY.
What is the Erie Canal?
500
A meeting where fur trappers would trade furs for supplies.
What is rendezvous?
500
Why did President Jackson not annex the state of Texas?
What is it would upset the balance of power between slave and free states?