Commander of the Texas Army, first President of Texas, later U.S. senator for Texas

• Sam Houston

• Santa Anna

• James K Polk

• William Henry Harrison

The route settlers took to travel to Oregon that took bravery because of harsh conditions

• Conestoga Trail

• Oregon Fever

• Oregon Trail

• Santa Fe Trail

Mexican Cession

• Mexican American War

• Mexico gives up land of Texas to U.S.

• Belief that U.S. should go from Atlantic to Pacific Ocean

• Period in 1840's when gold hunters went West

Alamo

• City in Texas

• Fort used by Americans in Texas

• train that traveled through Texas

• Fort in California

Town whose population grows quickly is called a ___________

• Pop Town

• Fast Town

• Gold Town

• BoomTown

Why were many Americans moving out West?

• to be with their families

• good, cheap farmland

• better weather conditions

• fight Native Americans

Why were the people that moved to Calfornia for the gold rush called "forty niners"?

• There were forty none of them

• They traveled forty nine miles to get to California

• Most of them arrived there in 1849

• They liked the football team

Which group of rugged individualists lived off the land in Oregon?

• missionaries

• Tejanos

• mountain men

• vaqueros

Where was gold discovered in California?

• Alamo

• Jamestown

• Sutter's Mill

• Oregon

Who was Santa Anna

• Mexico's President

• Leader of the Texans at the Alamo

• Fond gold in California

• Setled in Oregon