Question | Answer |
Louisiana Purchase | Purchase from France in 1803 for 15 million |
Mexican Cession | After losing war with USA, Mexico ceded California and New Mexico to USA for $15 million in 1848 |
Oregon Country | Acquired after negotiating a treaty with Great Britain in 1846 |
Mountain Men | Acted as guides for settlers crossing the Rocky Mountains. |
Mountain Men | hunted beaver and Buffalo in the Rocky Mountains |
Pioneers | left in early spring in order the cross the Rocky Mountains before the first snows |
California and Mexico | annexed by USA after the Mexican-American War |
Sam Houston | first president of the Republic of Texas |
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | signed in 1848 |
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | Mexico was forced to cede New Mexico and California. USA paid Mexico $15 million for lands. |
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | established the Rio Grande River as the southern border between Mexico and the USA |
Bear Flag Republic | nickname for California |
Lone Star republic | Texas |
James K Polk | elected president in 1844 because he supported Manifest Destiny |
Stepen Austin | leader of the Americans in Texas |
Goiliad | famous battle in Texas where Mexican General Santa Anna killed all the Americans |
Alamo | location of important battle between Santa Anna and 150 Americans led by Day Crockett and William Travis |
Santa Anna | Mexican dicator defeated by Sam Houston |
forty niners | gold seekers who migrated to California in 1849 |
Mormons | religious followers of Joseph Smith who settled in Salt Lake city, Utah |
San Jacinto | location near present day Houston, Tx where General Santa Anna of Mexico was defeated by Sam Houston |
Manifest Destiny | the belief that it was America's destiny to obtain all the land between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans |
Tejanos | Mexicans who claimed Texas as their home |
Stephan Austin | he began to organize the small colony of Americans who settled in Texas. |
cede | to give |
annex | to take control of a place |
Califorina and Texas | first belonged to Mexico |
boomtowns | built overnight during the gold rush of California |
Levi Strauss | a Jewish immigrant who sold gold-miners sturdy work pants |
Causes of Mexican War | 1. border dispute over Texas 2. Manifest Destiny |
James K Polk | elected president because he favored taking Texas and Oregon |
Missions | religious settlements established by the Catholic Church in order to teach Indians |
Jim Beckwourth | African-American Mountain man who established trade with Indians |
Prairie Schooners | canvas covered wagons that settlers use to travel west. From a distance they looked like ships at sea |
Brigham Young | led thousand of Mormons west to Utah after the Murder of Joseph Smith |