Which of the following was NOT a mountain man:

What job did mountain men often take up after over trapping and fashion changes led to a downturn in the fur business?

Which of the following people was a missionary killed by Native Americans for unknowingly bringing disease to them.

Near what city did both the Oregon and Santa Fe Trails start?

In what business did John Jacob Astor make a killing in the early 1800s?

Which president is most associated with the idea of Manifest Destiny?

What is the idea that the United States was clearly destined by God to extend its boundaries all the way to the Pacific Ocean?

Which candidate did James K. Polk beat in the 1844 election?

What country transferred Florida to the United States in 1821?

Why did many Americans want to move to Florida?

In what year did Mexico win independence from Spain?

What was the name for the Mexicans who claimed Texas as their home?

What attracted many Americans to move to Texas?

What event led American settlers in Texas to break away from Mexican government control there?

What was the name of the commander of Mexican forces who was sent to punish the American rebels in Texas?

At what Texas outpost did 180 American defenders try in 1836 to resist a Mexican army outnumbering it by many thousands?

Who led the American troops at the Alamo?

What did the new government of Texas under President Sam Houston call itself?

What was one of Sam Houston's first actions as president of the Lone Star Republic?

Whose election as president persuaded Congress to admit Texas as a state in 1845?

What trail did the American trader William Becknell pioneer from Independence, Missouri, to Santa Fe, New Mexico?

What priest was most famous for founding a series of missions along the coastline of California?

Who were the Mexican landowners who bought mission lands and set up huge ranches where they treated the Native American laborers almost like slaves?

What river did the United States say marked the southern border of Texas in its dispute with Mexico?

How much money did the United States INITIALLY offer to Mexico to buy New Mexico and California?

What president sent troops into the disputed territory, leading Mexican troops to attack, and this provoked a war between the United States and Mexico?

Which of the following was NOT a goal of the United States in the Mexican-American War?

What did California call itself in the short time in which it declared itself an independent nation?

What Mexican port city did American troops capture on their way toward Mexico City?

What is the name of the treaty that ended the Mexican-American War?

Approximately how much less than the original offer price of $30 million did America pay Mexico for the land it wanted in the Southwest?

Where was gold discovered in California?

What were the Mexicans living in California called?

What were the new settlements that appeared almost overnight in places where miners came looking for gold?

What city grew tremendously as a port as a result of all the miners coming to California?

By how much did the world’s gold supply increase as a result of all the gold discovered in California?

Who made the most profits in the gold boomtowns of California?

Who made a lot of money selling pants to the miners in California?

In places with no police force, who were the citizens who took the law into their own hands?

In what year did California enter the Union as a free state?

What is the official name for the Mormon Church?

Who founded the Mormon Church in New York?

Which of the following is NOT an original basic belief of Mormons?

Where did Joseph Smith and his followers move to in 1839 to escape religious persecution in New York?

Who took over leadership of the Mormon Church after Joseph Smith's assassination?

What was the largest single migration in American history?