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established a large American settlement in Texas

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Stephen Austint

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year for the Texas War for Independence

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1836

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former governor of TN who Texans followed for leadership

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Sam Houston

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the Mexican dictator who was determined to crush the rebellion

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General Santa Anna

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a fortified mission in San Antonio in which 200 Texans fought 3,000 Mexicans under Santa Anna

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Alamo

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commanded the Texans at the Alamo

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Colonel William Barret Travis

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two well-remembered heroes who died at the Alamo

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Jim Bowie
Davy Crockett

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became the battle cry of the Texans for the remainder of the war

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Remember the Alamo

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battle in which Houston and his forces won a decisive victory and practically ended the war

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Battle of San Jacinto

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the first president elected by the Texans for the Lone Star Republic

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Sam Houston

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an expression of a people’s will by direct vote

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plebiscite

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Americans that believed that America was destined to eventually expand to the Pacific and that the annexation of Texas would not only hasten the process but would also add to the nation’s prosperity and power

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expansionists

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british establishment that established an extensive fur trade in the Oregon territory

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Hudson Bay Company

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appointed by the Methodist to go to Oregon Territory to establish a mission per the request of four Indian chiefs

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Jason Lee

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Lee preached his first sermon at

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Fort Vancouver

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two countries that continued to claim the Oregon Territory and agreed to jointly occupy the territory

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Great Britain
United States

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the American Board of Foreign Missions sent this Presbyterian medical missionary___________ and his bride ___________ along with the _____________ couple

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Dr. Marcus Whitman and Narcissa
Reverend Henry and Eliza Spalding

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the first white women to journey west of the Rockies

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Narcissa Whitman
Eliza Spalding

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Whitman’s leading of nearly a thousand settlers safely into Oregon was called the

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Great Migration

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the type of wagons used in the wagon train

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Conestoga wagons

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2,000 mile trip used to reach Oregon

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Oregon Trail

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the Whigs nominee for the election of 1844

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Henry Clay

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the Whigs platform said nothing about _________

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expansion

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the reason we had the Oregon Trail

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because of South Pass

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discovered South Pass
Jedidiah Smith
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the Democratic nominee for the election of 1844
James K. Polk
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Polk was referred to as ______________________ because few expected him to win the election
"dark horse candidate"
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the Democrats' slogan for the election of 1844
"Fifty-four forty or fight"
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what did the Democratic slogan mean?
they would obtain control of the Northwest all the way to the 54 40` north latitude line or fight the British to get it
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won the election of 1844
Polk
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year Texas joined the Union as a slave state
1845
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Florida was a
slave state
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Iowa was a
free state
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Wisconsin was a
free state
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became the fixed boundary all the way to the Pacific, although Britain kept all of Vancouver Island and the right to navigate the Columbia River
49th Parallel
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t/f: Polk got his 54 40 or fight.
False
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the entrance of Iowa and Wisconsin , the ratio of free state to slave states was
15:15
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road that traders followed into New Mexico
Santa Fe Trail
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sent to protect the Texas border when Mexican activity threatened war
Zachary Taylor
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in President Polk's last attempt to preserve peace, he sent ______________________ as a special envoy to Mexico
John Slidell
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General Zachary Taylor was known as
Old Rough and Ready
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year Congress officially declared war on Mexico
1846
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Taylor crossed Rio Grande into Mexican territory and captured the city of
Monterrey
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sent by water to attack the Mexican coastal city of Veracruz and to press an attack from there to Mexico city
General Winfield Scott
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battle in which Old Rough and Ready won a decisive victory against Mexico in overwhelming odds
Battle of Buena Vista
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American settler in the _____________________ revolted against mexican authority
Sacramento Valley
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the homemade flag with a grizzly bear and a single star
Bear Flag of the Republic of California
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assisted the settlers of Sacramento Valley in their revolt
John C. Fremont (and Commodore Sloat)
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ordered by President Polk to lead forces from Missouri across the Rockies into New Mexico captured Santa Fe without firing a shot
Stephen W. Kearney
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the treaty that ended the Mexican War
Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago
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year of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
1848
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the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
1. Mexico recongized the Rio Grande as the southern border of Texas 2. Mexico ceded California and New Mexico to the US 3. US agreed to pay Mexico $15 million in cash 4. US assumed the claims of American citizens against the Mexican government
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the half-millions square miles granted to the US by Mexico
Mexican Cession
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owned a sawmill in which gold was discovered in Sacramento Valley
John Sutter
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the year that thousands of gold seekers descended on northern California
1849
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the name for thousands of gold seekers that flooded California
forty-niners
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became the 31st state
California
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year that California became stat e
1850
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the United States minister to Mexico who was authorized to negotiate with the Mexican government for the purchase of a narrow strip of land along the boundary of the New Mexico
James Gadsden
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the name for the piece of land the US paid Mexico $10 millions for to ensure a direct route for the building of the proposed southern railroad to the Pacific
Gadsden Purchase
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Methodist preacher who followed the goldrush to California
William Taylor

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