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Manifest Destiny

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Who led an expedition to discover the headwaters of the Arkansas River?

Zebulon Pike

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What led to the Texas War for Independence?

Mexican rejection of Texas statehood within Mexico

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Who was the victor at the Battle of San Jacinto?

Sam Houston

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What did President James K. Polk firmly support?

manifest destiny

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Why was independent Texas known as the Lone Star Republic?

Its flag had a single star on it.

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Why do you think that most Texans favored annexation by the United States, even after Texas won independence from Mexico?

Texans did not have an established economy. They also realized that they were still vulnerable to additional Mexican attacks.

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What is indivdualism?

self-reliant independence

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Who were mountain men?

the American fur trappers and explorers who began to explore and move west

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What does rendezvous mean?

a temporary market where trappers met to trade and socialize

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Define annex.

to add

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What is manifest destiny?

the idea that the United States had the right and the obligation to expand its territory across North America to the Pacific Ocean

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What is a siege?

a military tactic in which troops surround a city with soldiers in an attempt to take control of it

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What is a margin?

the amount by which something is won or lost

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Which Native American people did pioneers encounter as they traveled through the Great Plains?

Cherokee

Nez Perce

Zuni

Lakota

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Where did both the Santa Fe Trail and Oregon Trail begin?

Independence, Missouri

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By 1860, about how many people had settled in Oregon?

400,000

52,000

10,000

300,000

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