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| Found their own way with the help of guidebooks |
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| Trading post and cattle ranch in California |
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| Church leader lead his people to the west to escape persucution |
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| Engineered a plow with sharp edges and steel blades |
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| Idea that God gave the continent to the Americans |
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| To become part of America |
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| Spanish Agent or Contractor |
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| South east town of San Antonio near the gulf coast |
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| Former govenor of Tennese and proven military leader |
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| River president Tyler ordered soliders to Cross |
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| Hoped to bring Texans to the Union |
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| Bengamin Edwards declared that the settlements of America in Texas now constituted the independent nation of the Alamo |
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| Between 1823 and 1825, Mexico passed three colonization laws which offered cheap land to nearly anyone willing to settle in the Texas area |
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| After Santa Anna defeated the Texans at the Alamo, the new Texas government met at Washington on the Bravos and formally declared independence from Mexico |
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| Sam Houston forced Santa Ann to order his army out of Texas and sign a treaty recognizing the independence for the Republic of Texas |
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| In 1833 Texas was part of the Mexican state Coahulia |
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| By the time the Civil War began more Americans lived west of the _____________ than lived in states along the Atlantic Coast |
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| In 1846 a gruop of 87 overlanders, known as the ________ Party after the two brothers who led them, were trapped by winter snows high up in the Sierra Nevada |
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| Followers of Birmingham Young forged their way west along a path that became known as the _________ Trail. |
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| A small number of mountain men like Kit __________ and Jim Bridger made their living by trapping beaver and selling furs, but at the same time they were the trailblazers of the West |
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| Emigrants to the West made the journey in trains of covered ________ |
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| Antislavery leaders in Congredd opposed annexation of Texas because a significant population of _________ had taken enslaved African Americans into Texas, and the state was certain to support the cause of slavery |
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| James K. Polk won the Democratic nomination for president in 1844 with his promise to annex not only Texas but also the contested _________ territory in the Northwest |
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| Even before war with Mexico was officially declared, settlers in northern ___________, led by American general John C. Fremont, had begun an uprising. |
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| With Oregon and the former Mexican territories under the U.S. flag, the dream of __________ Destiny was realized: the U.S. stretched from ocean to ocean |
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| Polk forced the war to a conclusion when he sent soliders on ships to Veracruz from where they marched west and captured the Mexican capital, ___________ |
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| On Febuary 2nd 1848 Mexico's leaders signed what? |
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| Treaty of Culdape Hildago |
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| In order to implement three-pronged military strategy against Mexico, the U.S. needed to expand what? |
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| President Polk ordered troops led by General Zachary Taylor to cross what river? |
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| When did Texas join the Union? |
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| President Tyler a supporter of Texas annexation showed Congress a letter written by John C. Calhoun theat defended what? |
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| What did President Santa Anna of Mexico do in 1834? |
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| When Santa Anna's forces arrived at San Antonio in Febuary 1836, what did they find? |
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| Found 180 rebels in the Alamo |
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| When Stephen Austin settled in Texas what were the Spanish speaking habitants called? |
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| In 1830 Mexico closed its borders to any further immigration of _________? Why did they do this? |
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| Americans, Banned the importation of enslaved labor |
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| Hoping to ensure peace with Native Americans on the Great Plains, the federal government negotiated the what? |
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| The first convention held in the Texas town of San Felipe in 1832 asked Mexico to do what? |
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| Reopen Texas to Americans and loosen taxes |
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| The most popular east-west passage carved out by mountain men and used by emigrants was the what? |
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| Settlers on land they did not own |
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| Native Americans on the Great Plains feared the increasing flow of American settlers across their hunting grounds would disrupt the age old wanderings of the _______. |
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| What was Cyrus McCormick famous for? |
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