| Terms | ||
| #1 | These were the first people to settle an area. |
Pioneers |
| #2 | This is the belief that God gave America all the land between the two oceans. |
Manifest Destiny |
| #3 | These people, who sell goods, gained the most money from the California gold rush. |
Merchants |
| #4 | These people get natural resources from the earth. |
Miners |
| #5 | This is the name for people who rushed to California in search of gold. |
Forty-niners |
| People | ||
| #1 | This American president wanted to take California to help increase the United States' borders. |
President Polk |
| #2 | This man was the president of Mexico. |
Santa Anna |
| #3 | This man was the president of Texas. |
Sam Houston |
| #4 | This man was the leader of the Mormons. |
Brigham Young |
| #5 | These missionaries wrote Christian writings and songs in the Nez Perce language. |
Henry and Eliza Spalding |
| On the Map | ||
| #1 | This can be used to find the actual distance between two places on a map. |
Map Scale |
| #2 | This river separates Texas from Mexico. On the map below as Letter D.
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Rio Grande |
| #3 | This country is directly south of the United States. On the map below Letter B.
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Mexico |
| #4 | This feature on a map shows where an area is located in the world. |
Map Locator |
| #5 | This line of latitude established the northern boundary of the United States from the British Colonies (which is Canada today). On the map below Letter A.
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49th Parallel |
| Vs. Mexico | ||
| #1 | This is the motto that Houston's Texan soldiers yelled as they attacked at the Battle of San Jacinto. |
"Remember the Alamo" |
| #2 | The people in this area (which later became a state in the United States) fought against Santa Anna to bring back the Mexican Constitution of 1824. |
Texas |
| #3 | President Polk wanted to take this area (which later became a state in the United States) from Mexico because of the excellent port cities and to fulfill Manifest Destiny. |
California |
| #4 | This war was fought in 1846 between the United States and Mexico. |
Mexican-American War |
| #5 | This side in the Mexican-American War had the advantage of better weapons and better leaders. |
Americans/ United States |
| Moving West | ||
| #1 | This is the belief that God gave America all the land between the two oceans, so people moved West to fill that land. |
Manifest Destiny |
| #2 | These were the first people to settle an area; many of them traveled by wagon on the Oregon Trail to settle in the West. |
Pioneers |
| #3 | This man, the leader of the Mormons, led them West to settle in Utah to practice their religious freedom. |
Brigham Young |
| #4 | This is the year of the gold rush which caused California's population to grow. |
1849 |
| #5 | Slave owners did not take their slaves to California in fear that they would run away and do this. |
Mine for gold |
| Final Question | |
