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| List the states the Oregon Country included in the early 1800s? | Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Canada |
| Name the four nations that tried to take control of the Oregon Country. | Russia, Spain, Great Britain, United States |
| Britain's claims were based on whose explorations? | Sir Francis Drake and George Vancouver |
| The US based their claim on the Oregon country on whose explorations? | Robert Grey and John Astor |
| What was the meeting place of the Mountain Men and Indians called? | Rendezvous |
| Why did the Indians stop working for the British and began to trap for the U.S.? | Better pay |
| Who was the African American Mountain Man? | James Beckworth |
| How did James Beckworth open up the settlement of the west? | He discovered a pass through the Sierra Nevada Mountains |
| What are the last names of the two missionary couples that moved through the Rocky Mountains to Oregon? | Whitman and Spaulding |
| Where was the jumping off place for the Oregon trail? | Independence Missouri |
| What are prairie schooners? | Light weight covered wagons |
| Why did the wagon trains wait to leave until May? | grass to feed the oxen |
| What was the prairie library? | The travelers found books were too heavy to haul so left them on the ground. Others picked read them and also tossed them |
| What caused death among the pioneers? | cholera and smallpox |
| Who said 54-40 or fight? | James K Polk |
| What did 54-40 mean? | That the US boundary expand North to S. Alaska |
| Who were empresarios? | People who recruited settlers to Texas |
| Where did Stephen Austin bring settlers? | Brazos and Colorado River |
| What laws did the Texan colonists agree to obey? | become citizens, obey Mexico's laws, accept the Roman Catholic faith |
| What was the main reason the Texas settlers had trouble with Mexico | slavery |
| Why did Stephen Austin go to Mexico City to talk with Santa Anna? | To discuss reforms |
| What happened to Stephen Austin in Mexico City? | He was thrown in prison |
| What was in the letter that got Austin in trouble with Santa Anna? | He urged Texas to seek statehood |
| Where was the first battle of the Texas battle of Independence? | Gonzales |
| What happened to the soldiers that surrendered at Goliad? | They were massacred |
| Where was the last battle for Texas independence? | San Jacinto |
| Some believed the United States should reach from the Atlantic to the Pacific. What was this called? | Manifest Destiny |
| Slavery prevented Texas from becoming a state for 9 years. Why? | Northern states did not want another slave state |
| What boundary of Texas did the Mexicans accept? | Nueces River |
| Why did Pres Polk send soldiers to the disputed border with Mexico? | To start a war with Mexico and acquire California, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado and Wyoming |
| What was the Bear Flag Republic? | California |
| What is the Mexican Cession? | When Mexico gave up most of its northern territories to the United States |
| What war ended with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo? | The Mexican War |
| How much money was spent at the Gadsen Purchase? | ten million dollars |
| Who was the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints? | Joseph Smith |
| Why did Brigham Young lead the Mormons into Salt Lake instead of Joseph Smith? | Joseph was murdered by enemies of the Mormon Church |
| Name one reason people did not like the Mormons? | Polygamy |
| Name the city that the Mormons founded in Utah. | Salt Lake City |
| Where was gold found in California? | Sutter's Mill, American River, Northern California |
| Who were the forty-niners? | Gold seekers who rushed to California in 1849 |
| Name two ways gold seekers sailed to California. | around South America to San Francisco and to the Isthmus of Panama, then mules to the coast |
| How did most of the gold seekers get to California? | The California Trail, and the Mormon Trail |
| What is a vigilante? | a person or group that chased bad people out of town |
| What were miners called? | prospectors |
| What was the Bureau of Indian Affairs created for? | To limit Indian claims on land |
| Why did the Chinese open laundries, restaurants and boarding houses? | Discriminatory laws would not let them mine for gold without paying a high tax |
| What is a ghost town? | An abandoned town |
