The California Gold Rush began with gold being found in the California River.

Forty-niners were the first Americans to reach the Oregon Country.

The Oregon Trail began in Missouri.

By 1835, Texas had more U.S. settlers than people from Mexico.

Northerners opposed adding another slave state to the United States when Texas first requested annexation.

Settlers streamed into Florida when they learned of its fertile land.

In the early 1800s, the United States, Great Britain, Mexico, and Russia all laid claim to part of Oregon Country.

The defenders of the Alamo played an important role in the fight for the independence of Texas.

The territorial capital of Florida was Pensacola.

Who led the Mormon migration to the Great Salt Lake area?

Which group made huge profits during the Gold Rush?

What did the United States insist was the border between the United States and Mexico?

Reports of what persuaded many Americans to settle in Oregon Country?

Which group took the law into their own hands in gold rush society?

What was the main cause of death in the Mexican American War?

What was the last country to challenge the United States’s control of Oregon?

Under whose presidential administration was the United States at war with Mexico?

Which philosophy meant that the United States was meant to extend its boundaries all the way to the Pacific?

Florida could not become a state until which of the following happened?

What happened to the Texan forces at the Alamo?

Who was the Seminole leader who went to war against the United States in an effort to keep his nation's land?