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35 Cards in this Set
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What trail involved trade
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Santa Fe Trail
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What trail involved religion
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Mormon Trail
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What trail involved exploration
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Oregon Trail
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What two major people traveled the Oregon Trail
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Marcus and Narcissa Whitman
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Who was the first leader of the Mormons
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Joseph Smith
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Who was the second leader of the Mormons who brought the Mormons to Utah
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Brigham Young
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Who authored the compromise
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Henry Clay
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1. Mexico controlled by Spai - 1821 wins its independence- Mexico is a Catholic Nation.
2. Missions were set up by priests 3. Mexico won its independence from Spain in 1821 it took over missions and Mexicans moved into the area (Indians fled) 4. Mexicans and Americans began to set up trade 5. Mexican government couldn't control Texas |
Annexation of Texas
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What were the two reasons for why the Mexican government began to encourage Americans to move into Texas
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1. Control Indian raids on villages
2. Americans bring in technology and money |
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Who was the president during the Mexican American War
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James K. Polk
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What was land not claimed by the Natived or the Settlers (a place established for the Natives and Settlers to trade with each other).
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Middle Ground
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As the settlers moved west so did ___
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The Middle Ground
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Who was a congressman who later became president and questioned the validity of the disputed territory
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Abraham Lincoln
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A person who was granted the right to settle on Mexican land in exchange for recruiting and taking responsibility for new settlers.
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Empresario
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Who never lost a battle
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Winfield Scott
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When John Marshall discovers gold on John Sutters property in the Sacramento Valley thousands moved to California to get the gold in the year 1849. Those people are called this because of the year it took place.
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The 49ers
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Where did Steven Kearny go?
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New Mexico
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What was the last event that had occured
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The Gadstein Purchase
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This 1851 treaty gave Native American tribes 400 miles of land east of the Rockies and the Natives would not attack the white settlers (the treaty was violated numerous times by the white settlers and the government).
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Fort Laramie Treaty
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Name for the present day southwestern United States tha Mexico ceded to the US in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 but hadn't been part of the area east of the Rio Grande which had been claimed by the Republic of Texas.
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Mexican Cession
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WHo was an American lawyer and soldier who became a lieutenant colonel in the Texas army and died in the Battle of the Alamo.
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William Travis
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What was a US purchase of land in southern New Mexico and Arizona south of the Gila River on December 30, 1853 and it was purchased to get approval for a southern railroad route to the Pacific coast in that territory.
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Gadsden Purchase
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Territory along the Gila River for $10 million
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1853 Gadsden Purchase
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Belief that it was the United States Destiny to expand its territory over the whole of North America and to extend to enhance its political, social, and economic issues.
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Manifest Destiny
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WHo authored the compromise bill
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Henry Clay
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Who traveled for religious purchases
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Mormons
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What had to do with the Oregon Territory
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5440 or fight
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Led 300 families to Texas where they settled on land granted to them by the Mexican government.
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Stephen Austin
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Founded the Mormon church and was later killed by an anti-Mormon mob in Illinois
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Joseph Smith
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Authored the omnibus compromise bill that allowed western states to be admitted to the union.
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Henry Clay
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Developed the tactic and then led the fight to get the compromise bill through Congress
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Daniel Webster
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Led the Mormons west from Illinois to Utah, where they settled
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Brigham Young
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American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist.[1] He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.
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Henry D. Thoreau
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an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from August 14, 1848, until February 14, 1859, when the southwestern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Oregon. Divided by the US and Great Britain in 1846.
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Oregon Territory
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an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 4, 1805 until June 4, 1812, when it was renamed to Missouri Territory. It was formed out of part of the lands acquired by the United States in the Louisiana Purchase, in which French Louisiana was bought from France.
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Louisiana Territory
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