| A | B |
|---|
| divine | of or pertaining to God |
| territory | a region of land |
| Louisiana Purchase | $15 million deal with France that gave the U.S. the Louisiana Territory in 1803 |
| Thomas Jefferson | president who asked Congress to approve the Louisiana Purchsae |
| diplomacy | conducting negotiations with other countries |
| James Monroe | president who sent Jackson to chase Seminoles into Florida |
| Andrew Jackson | army leader who invaded Florida and captured its governor |
| John Quincy Adams | secretary of state who gained Florida for the U.S. |
| Stepehen F. Austin | settled a colony of Americans in Texas in 1821 |
| Tejanos | Texans of Mexican descent |
| Santa Anna | Mexican leader who attacked the Alamo and lost battles at San Jacinto and Buena Vista |
| Texas War for Independence | 1836 rebellion of Texans against Mexican rule, resulted in Texas becoming an independent nation |
| annex | to add a territory to a country; annexation |
| manifest destiny | the belief that it was America's right and duty to spread the nation across the North American continent |
| Sam Houston | leader of Texas army who won the Battle of San Jacinto, ending the revolution |
| The Alamo | defeat of Texans by Santa Anna near San Antonio |
| Lewis and Clark | explorers and map makers of the Louisiana Territory |
| 49th parallel | northern border of the U.S. with Britain/Canada |
| Mexican-American War | war with Mexico in 1846-47 that resulted in Mexico ceding land from Texas to California to the U.S. |
| General Zachary Taylor | "Old Rough and Ready" general who fought near the Rio Grande River and defeated Santa Anna at Buena Vista |
| General Winfield Scott | captured Mexico City in 1847 ending the Mexican-American War |
| Treaty of Gudalupe Hidalgo | officially ended the Mexican-American War and gave the U.S. a large amount of land in the southwest |
| Gadsden Purchase | $10 million purchase of southern Arizona and New Mexico from Mexico |
| Mexican Cession | land in California, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona |
