These were the first people to settle an area.

This is the belief that God gave America all the land between the two oceans.

These people, who sell goods, gained the most money from the California gold rush.

These people get natural resources from the earth.

This is the name for people who rushed to California in search of gold.

This American president wanted to take California to help increase the United States' borders.

This man was the president of Mexico.

This man was the president of Texas.

This man was the leader of the Mormons.

These missionaries wrote Christian writings and songs in the Nez Perce language.

This can be used to find the actual distance between two places on a map.

This river separates Texas from Mexico. On the map below as Letter D.

This country is directly south of the United States. On the map below Letter B.

This feature on a map shows where an area is located in the world.

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.

This is the motto that Houston's Texan soldiers yelled as they attacked at the Battle of San Jacinto.

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.

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.

This war was fought in 1846 between the United States and Mexico.

This side in the Mexican-American War had the advantage of better weapons and better leaders.

This is the belief that God gave America all the land between the two oceans, so people moved West to fill that land.

These were the first people to settle an area; many of them traveled by wagon on the Oregon Trail to settle in the West.

This man, the leader of the Mormons, led them West to settle in Utah to practice their religious freedom.

This is the year of the gold rush which caused California's population to grow.

Slave owners did not take their slaves to California in fear that they would run away and do this.

Pioneers

Manifest Destiny

Merchants

Miners

Forty-niners

President Polk

Santa Anna

Sam Houston

Brigham Young

Henry and Eliza Spalding

Map Scale

Rio Grande

Mexico

Map Locator

49th Parallel

"Remember the Alamo"

Texas

California

Mexican-American War

Americans/ United States

Manifest Destiny

Pioneers

Brigham Young

1849

Mine for gold