| A | B |
|---|
| a person who favors expanding the territory or influence of a country | Expansionist |
| American trappers who explored the Rocky Mts. in the early 1800s | Mountain Men |
| Treaty that restricted the Indians to specific areas away from the Oregon Trail 1851 | Treaty of Fort Laramie |
| General of the Mexican Army, favored authoritarian govt. dominated by the military | Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna |
| leader of the Texan army that defeated Santa Anna at San Jacinto | Sam Houston |
| General during the Mexican American War, captured Vera Cruz | Winfield Scott |
| 1853 purchase of land (AZ, NM) from Mexico | Gadsden Purchase |
| Miners who went to California after the discovery of gold in 1848 | Forty-niners |
| inventor of the telegraph | Samuel Morse |
| occurred during Daniel Websters' first year as Sec. of State, concluded a northeast boundary, extradition and ships to help stop slave trade. | Webster-Asburton Treaty |
| 19th century doctrine that westward expansion of the U.S. was not only inevitable but a God-given right | Manifest Destiny |
| from Independence, Missouri to Oregon, used by pioneers in the mid-1800s | Oregon Trail |
| An American who became an Impresario in Mexico | Stephen Austin |
| nation formed in 1835 by Texans who declared independence from Mexico | Lone Star Republic |
| Jacksonian Democrate, believed in Manifest Dystany, promised to obtain both Texas and Oregon | James Polk |
| ended the Mexican-American War | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
| ban slavery in the lands won from Mexico | Wilmot Proviso |
| the use of metal pans, picks and shovels to harvest gold from the banks and bottoms of rivers and streams | Placer Mining |
| inventor of the first commercial steel plow | John Deere |
| developed by traders in the mid-1800s connecting Independence, Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico | Santa Fe Trail |
| led the Mormons west to found New Zion | Brigham Young |
| independent control over one's own affairs | Autonomy |
| a Spanish Mission, used in the Texas revolt to hold up Santa Anna | Alamo |
| sent to Texas by Polk to occupy lands between Nueces R. & Rio Grande R. | Zachary Taylor |
| mass migration to California after the discovery of Gold | California Gold Rush |
| use of water to erode gravel hills into long sluicies to catch gold | Hydraulic Mining |
| Virginian who founded International Harvester, inventor of the McCormick Reaper | Cyrus McCormick |
