Westward Expansion

An abandoned mission where a small group of Texas rebels were defeated by Mexican troops.

• Alamo
• Goliad
  

Defeated the Americans at the battle of the Alamo.

• Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
  
• Juarez de San Jacinto
  

Sam Houston asked the United States to _______ the Republic of Texas into the United States.

• Annex
  
• land grant
  
• Empresario
  
• Self-government
  

Which group of people were known as "forty-niners?”

• miners in the California Gold Rush
  
• the American landing at Veracruz
  
• the controversy over California's application for statehood
  
• the settlement of Oregon and establishment of its northern border
  

Which territory was declared independent when a group of Americans led by John C. Fremont seized the town of Sonoma and raised a flag that featured a grizzly bear?

• New Mexico
  
• Republic of California
  
• Mexico's northern provinces
  
• land between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande
  

The idea that American's had a God-given right to expand across the continent?

• Temperance Movement
  
• Abolitionism
  
• Manifest Destiny
  

Why did President Polk want Mexican territory?

• He wanted to expand the US
• The land had good resources
• He needed room to build a mansion for his cats
• To get Shrek'd

Who was the president for the U.S during the time of the war 

• President Polk
• Macys cat Oliver
• Thomas Jefferson 
• John Quincy Adams 

Who was Texas fighting in the Texas Revolution? 

• The Spanish
• The Mexicans
• The Americans
• The British

Who was the President and leader of the Mexican Army during the battle between Texas?

• Sam Houston
• William B. Travis
• James Fannin
• Santa Anna