Sectional Crisis

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Idea that the US was supposed to control the land from coast to coast.

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Manifest Destiny

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Trail used by pioneers to travel to the Pacific Northwest territory.

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Oregon Trail

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Mormon leader who led his group out to the west to escape persecution.

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Brigham Young

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Led roughly 1500 families out to settle in the south west (Texas); then encouraged a rebellion.

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Stephen F. Austin

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Famous mission where a one-sided battle took place between the early Texans & Tejanos and Mexican army.

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The Alamo

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President of the Lone Star Republic, and later senator of Texas

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Sam Houston

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Lone Star Republic was which future state?

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Texas

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Treaty that ended the Mexican-American War

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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

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1853 territorial expansion added to the Mexican cession in order to build a railroad in the south west part of the US

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Gadsden Purchase

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Mass migration to pacific coast due to the potential to strike it rich - 1848-1849

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California Gold Rush