adventurers, fur traders and trappers, who lived lonely, dangerous lives in the mountains.

2,000 mile long trail, which stretched from Missouri to Oregon. Settlers took this trail to the west.

Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who traveled west for religious freedom.

Became the leader of the Mormon Church after Joseph Smith's murder. He chose Utah as their new home.

Mexican priest that led a rebellion against Spain.

agents hired to bring settlers to Texas

started a Texas Colony on the lower Colorado River.

Mexican General who suspended Mexico's republican constitution and went to war with Texas

an abandoned mission near San Antonio that was an important battle site during the Texas Revolution

Mexican army was destroyed. The Texans captured Santa Anna and forced him to sign a treaty giving Texas its independence.

Santa Anna ordered the Mexican army to execute 350 Texan prisoners of war who surrendered.

obvious fate to settle land all the way to the Pacific Ocean in order to spread Democracy.

governor from Tennessee, Democratic candidate who was our 11th president.

Whig candidate in the election of 1844

cowboys who managed large herds of cattle and sheep.

Early California settlers who were known for their hospitality and horse riding.

When Americans declared California to be an independent nation and hung a flag of a grizzly bear.

Signed by the US and Mexico, officially ended the war and forced Mexico to turn over much of its northern territory to the US

the US paid Mexico $10 million for southern parts of Arizona and New Mexico. Fixed the boundary with Mexico

A Swiss immigrant who created a colony, Sutter’s Fort, near Sacramento California. Gold was found at his mill, beginning the gold rush.

a group of western travelers who went to California, but were stranded in the Sierra Nevada Mountains during winter. About half died.

Gold-seeking migrants to California. They earned this name because they went to California in 1849.

search for gold

Miners who used pans or other devices to wash gold nuggets out of loose rock and gravel.

people who leave their own country in order to permanently settle in another.

Where did people move west in the 1800s

Requirements to receive free land in Texas

Who was worried that allowing Texas to enter the Union as a slave state would upset the balance of free and slave states in Congress. He also worried that this could cause problems with Mexico and might lead the US to war.

America with a Pacific port, which would help with our trade with China if WHAT became a state?

Which 2 states did Polk annex?

What gave us our northwestern border with Canada

Which river did Mexico want as the border?

Which river did America want as the border?

Out west, Women did all of the following EXCEPT

California became the 31st state in which year?

What was created to fix the isolation problem between California and the rest of the US?

Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie were killed at which battle?

What conflicts did American settlers, Native Americans and Mexican Americans experience in the Mexican Cession?

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