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| Expansionists | people who believed that their country's prosperity depended on enlarging its territory |
| Annex | take control of a territory and add it to a country |
| Manifest Destiny | the dream that the United States borders should stretch from coast to coast. the belief that America’s fate was to expand to the Pacific Ocean |
| Rendezvous | trappers met at a prearranged spot for a large gathering |
| wagon train | lines of wagons traveling west together |
| The Gadsden Purchase (part of Mexico) was for how much? | $10 million |
| Why did the United States need the land purchased in the Gadsden Purchase? | to build railroads |
| when the US and Mexico went to War the US wanted what river as its border? | Rio Grande |
| What state is known as the Bear Flag Republic? | California |
| What state is know as the Lone Star Republic | Texas |
| The slogan "Fifty-four Forty or Fight" refers to | the slogan used when Americans were demanding all of Oregon |
| the Mormon Trail leads to what state? | Utah |
| What group got trapped in the winter and resorted to cannibalism? | Donner |
| What were the dangers for the white settlers in the wagon trains? | cholera; snow; snakebites; raging rivers; stampedes; and grassland fires |
| The first Americans to reach California traveled how? | By ship |
| After Mexico became independent | people could stay in Mexico if they agreed to what? |
| what were some Mormon beliefs? | Man could have more than 1 wife and all property should be shared |
| 49th parallel relates to what State? | Oregon |
| Brigham Young | Took over for the killed founder of the Mormon Church and moved them to Utah. he led the Mormons to Utah to escape religious persecution |
| Joseph Walker | Hired by Benjamin Bonneville to find a practical trail to California that eventually became known as the California Trail |
| Sam Houston | Ex-governor of Tennessee who led the Texan army |
| John O'Sullivan | Newspaper editor who coined the term "Manifest Destiny" |
| Joseph Smith | Founded the Mormon Church of Latter-Day Saints and was killed |
| Susannah Dickerson | Alamo survivor who rode out and spread the work of the Texans' defeat |
| William Becknell | known as the Father of the Santa Fe Trail |
| James Gadsden | the US Minister to Mexico who negotiated the purchase of a strip of land in present-day Arizona for $10 million |
| Moses Austin | Missouri banker who died before he could lead 300 families into Texas |
| Manuel Lisa | Spanish American trader from St. Louis who built Fort Manuel on the Little bighorn and Yellowstone Rivers |
| Stephen Austin | man who took over for his father when he died to lead the families into Texas |
| John Sutter | gold was first discovered in California on his land |
| James K. Polk | became President of the US after John Tyler |
| John C. Fremont | the man sent the US government to survey and map the Oregon Trail |
| Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna | army officer who had taken over Mexico's government |
| Whitmnas | the missionary couple in Oregon who were tying to convert the Cayuse tribe. They were killed by Indians when half of the Cayuse tribe died. |
| A mission before it was a fort | the Alamo |
| “Remember the Alamo!” | rallying cry to the Texans |
| City in Missouri where most t rails started | Independece |
| Why were miners in California called the “forty niners” | people rushed to California in 1849 to find their fortune in Gold Rush |
| Why wasn’t Texas instantly annexed? | fear it would lead to a war with Mexico |
| Polk’s goals for the war with Mexico | drive Mexicans away form Rio Grande; to occupy New Mexican & California; for Mexico to surrender |
| Texas revolution | held a convention; wrote a declaration of independence; volunteer army formed; elected a president |
| What is one reason in 1849 that people wanted to settle in California? | To find gold |
| What was a reason that people wanted to settle in California? | rich soil - warm sun - good times |
| Who were the "forty-niners"? | Miners who arrived in California during the peak of the gold Rush in 1849 |
| Indians blamed this Oregon missionary couple for bringing in measles | Whitman |
| What was the religious reason that people wanted to settle in Oregon? | To convert the Indians to Christianity |
| Fremont created | a map showing hazards river crossings and pastures making it easier for wagon trains |
| What is a reason that people wanted to settle in Oregon | Good farmland and |
| Why did people settle in Utah? | religious freedom and It was isolated but a well-planned irrigation system |
| The Mormons are also know as | Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints |
| Political party of Presidennt John Tyler | Whig |
| political party of James K. Polk of Tennessee | Democrat |
| Did James K. Polk support Manifest Destiny? | yes |
| Santa Anna | the Mexican leader whose troops captured the Alamo |
| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | gave Americans 500 thounsad square miles of Mexican land |
