Branched off the Oregon Trail in Idaho and headed south to California.

Went from Council Bluffs, Iowa to Salt Lake City, Utah.

Forced march of the Native Americans from their homelands in the Southern United States to Indian Territory in Oklahoma.

Known as the "Founder of the American Industrial Revolution".

Thought of a new way to produce large amounts of goods at one time.

Built a factory at Waltham, Massachusetts with the spinning, dyeing, and weaving together under one roof.

Inventor of the steamboat.

Manufacturer who built the first locomotive in 1830.

The first newspaper to be owned and written by Africans in the United States.

A newspaper founded by William Lloyd Garrison.

Told the heartbreaking story of slaves being mistreated by a cruel slave owner.

When people began using machines instead of hand tools.

Copies of each part that were all the same.

Made it possible to use untrained workers in factories.

Resisted moving to Oklahoma.

People who arrived to hunt for gold between 1848 and in 1849.

People who wanted to abolish slavery.

A religious group that had tried to abolish slavery since the founding of the nation.

Vice President to President Jackson.

Chief Justice who gave the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Indian Removal Act.

Moses Austin’s son who took up his father’s work and started the colony.

Became the new leader of the Mormons and decided that they should move to a place where no one would bother them.

President who wanted to see the United States reach to the Pacific Ocean.

Site where gold was first discovered in California by James Marshall.

Mining camps that would rapidly grow into towns.

When the gold ran out in an area, the miners would leave and soon the town would be empty and abandoned.

Site of the first women's rights convention.

An old Spanish mission church that Texan rebels took shelter in.

Where Houston’s army took the Mexicans by surprise and captured Santa Anna.

February 23, 1847, victory of Taylor’s 4,800 troops over Santa Anna's 15,000 Mexican soldiers.

Treaty that ended the Mexican American War with large land acquisitions for the Americans.

Regional loyalty.

A tax on imports.

To leave the Union.

Change for the better.

Abolitionist who wrote a novel that turned many people against slavery called Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

Former slave named Isabella who believed that God had called her to “travel up and down the land” to preach.

Told the Massachusetts legislature that the mentally ill were kept in cages.

She and Lucretia Mott went to a convention of abolitionists in London where they were not allowed to speak because they were women.

Worked for women teachers to have the same pay as men and for women teachers to have the same property rights as men.

Passed by Congress in 1830 that said that all Indians east of the Mississippi River must leave their land and move west.

What many Americans believed to be their God given right to stretch from sea to shining sea.

Land made up of the states of California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona. Portions of Wyoming, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Colorado forcibly given away by Mexico for 15 million dollars.

Purchased by the United States from Mexico in 1853 for railroad building.

Commander of the army of the Republic of Texas.

Led troops into Mexico in May 1846.

Left Kansas with orders to occupy New Mexico and California.

Leader of the rebels who declared independence from Mexico and formed the Republic of California.

Landed at Veracruz on the Gulf of Mexico and made for Mexico City.