Sectional Crisis

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

• American Imperialism
• Continental Expansion
• Manifest Destiny
• Western Expansionism

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

• California Trail
• Santa Fe Trail
• Mormon Trail
• Oregon Trail

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

• Joseph Smith
• Martin Luther
• John Calvin
• Brigham Young

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

• Sam Houston
• James Bowie
• William B. Travis
• Stephen F. Austin

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

• Battle of San Jacinto
• Siege of Bexar
• Goliad Massacre
• The Alamo

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

• James K. Polk
• William Howard Taft
• Stephen F. Austin
• Sam Houston

Lone Star Republic was which future state?

• California
• Texas
• Oklahoma
• New Mexico

Treaty that ended the Mexican-American War

• Treaty of Paris
• Treaty of Versailles
• Treaty of Tordesillas
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

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

• Gadsden Purchase
• Oregon Trail
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• Louisiana Purchase

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

• California Gold Rush

• Silver Rush
• Pioneer Trail
• Utah Gold Act