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What region was "54-40 or fight" about? |
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The mexican war started when ___?____ became a state |
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What president strongly supported the annexation of Texas? |
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We bought the ____?_____ from Mexico |
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The 49th parallel became the border between the U.S. and _?_ |
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What type of state did Texas become (angered many northeners) |
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Who was the American General who took Veracruz and Mexico City? |
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we bought the Gadsden Purchase to get land to build a ? |
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Who was Mexicos general/president? |
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What treaty ended the Mexican War? |
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Name of Californias rebillion against Mexico during the Mexican War? |
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The belief that the U.S. should spread to the Pacific coast? |
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land we recieved as a result of the Mexican War |
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American General who helped California? |
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General who was sent to the north bank of the Rio Grande River |
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One fo the early Rocky Mountain fur trappers who was once attacked by a grizzly bear was? |
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some of the first non indian to travel to the Rocky Mountains as fur trappers and explorers were known as ? |
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Mountain Men got togther at an event called __?____ to trade and socialize |
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What trail was mostly used for trade adn had few settlers travelling on it? |
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Many settlers went on the _?_ trail? |
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Some of the first people to go were not actually settlers but _?_ |
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A group that travelled west to get religous freedman was ? |
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Mormons were started by _?_ |
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Mormoms went west under the leadership of _?_ |
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The mormon tail led to the state that is now _?_ |
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Mormons built a new settelment called _?_ alont the shores of Great salt Lake |
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What was the largest immigrant group in the 1800's? |
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what spread easily in the unsanitary dirty crowded tenemants where many immigrants first settled? |
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What political party started due to their opposition to immigrants? |
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What 2 woman led the Seneca Falls Convention? |
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Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
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What word means the right to vote? |
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Who helped make the womans rights movment into a national movement> |
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Who did Mexico win independece in 1821? |
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Who was the Alamo defended by? |
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William Travis, Jim Bowie, and Davy Crocket |
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Who was the presidant of Texas when it was and INDEPENDENT COUNTRY? |
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When did California Become a State? |
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what did William Lloyd Garrison do? |
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the norths reason for slavery was? |
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fear that ex slaves would take jobs |
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What was the souths reason for slavery?> |
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Salvery good for blacks better of than norths 'wage slaves' (factory workers) |
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The temperance movment was against what? |
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leader for free public schools |
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What was the leading textbook? |
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Samuel Gridley Howe was for what> |
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Thomas Gallaudet was for what? |
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