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Manifest Destiny
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Westward Expansion
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What was the name of the east-west route created by mountain men?
Oregon Trail
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What was the name of the major trade route that connected New Mexico with Independence, Missouri?
Santa Fe Trail
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How were settlers treated by Native Americans on their journey west?
Native Americans often helped them by giving food and answering their questions.
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People who were traveling west were called or labeled what term?
overlanders
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What migration to the west did not involve agricultural hopes and dreams?
California Gold Rush
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What president was known as an "expansionist" who wanted to expand the borders of the U.S.?
James M. Polk
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What does annexation mean?
Annexation means to incorporate a territory within the domain of a country.
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What does ceded mean?
Ceded means to give up territory
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What did President Polk promise to annex and buy?
annex: Texas and Oregon, buy: California
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After winning independence from Mexico, most Texans wanted what for the Republic of Texas?
Most Texans voted for annexation to the U.S.
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Who was the first president of the Republic of Texas?
Sam Houston
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Who was the commander during the Texas War for Independence?
Sam Houston
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What was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalo included Mexico ceding 500,000 square miles of territory to the U.S.
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What did the U.S. give up in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
U.S. paid $15 million to Mexico and paid Mexican debts owed to U.S. citizens
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What were empresarios and what were they expected to do?
Empresarios were men that were given large grants of Texas land in exchange for a promise to fill land with a set number of settlers
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What was one Mexican law that Mexico expected the Texan settlers to obey?
convert to Roman Catholicism
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