| A | B |
| James K. Polk | The Manifest Destiny president |
| Trail of Tears | The forced removal of the Cherokee people from Georgia to Oklahoma |
| California | The Bear Flag Republic |
| Davy Crockett | Tennessee volunteer and hero who died at the Alamo |
| cession | one country giving up land to another by treaty |
| Oregon | had the American slogan 54'40" or fight |
| John Sutter | owned a lumber mill where gold was discovered in California |
| vigilante | people who took the law into their own hands |
| Utah | home for the Mormons |
| Santa Anna | Mexican dictator who did not want to lose land to the U.S. |
| panning | method used to find gold |
| Texas | The Lone Star Republic |
| Stephen Austin | brought the first American settlers to Texas |
| Manifest Destiny | a feeling-fate that theU.S. would stretch from coast to coast no matter what |