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Trails –100 pt. answer.
Rich resources, land, mild climate.
Trails-100 pt question?
What are reasonspeople went West?
Travelers-100 pt answer.
Fur traders, trappers, adventurers
Travelers- 100 pt question?
Who were themountain men?
Texas –100 pt answer.
Started a colony in Texas in 1822 with the
Original 300 families.
Texas-100 pt question?
Who is Stephen F. Austin?
People –100 pt answer.
Mexican cowboys
People –100 pt question?
What are vacqueros?
Mining –100 pt answer.
John Sutter
Mining –100 pt question?
Whose land was gold discovered on in California?
Trails –200 pt answer.
Missouri to Oregonabout 2000 miles
Trails-200 pt question?
What is the Oregon Trail?
Travelers –200 pt answer.
A yearly meeting offur traders from
the Rocky Mountains.
Travelers –200 pt question?
What was the rendezvous?
Texas –200 pt answer
Leader of the Mexican Army
Texas –200 pt question?
Who wasGeneral Santa Ana?
People- 200 pt answer.
James Polk
People -200 pt question?
Who was President during the Mexican-American War?
Mining –200 pt answer.
People rushed off to California in droves.
Mining- 200 pt question?
Who were the forty-niners?
Trails- 300 pt answer.
Independence, MO toSanta Fe, NM
Trails –300 pt question?
What was the Santa Fe Trail?
Travelers- 300 pt answer.
Pioneers that settled in Utah for religious freedom.
Topic 2 –300 pt question?
Who were the Mormons?
Texas –300 pt answer.
Mission, San Antonio,fell to Mexico
Texas-300 pt question?
What was the Alamo?
People –300 pt answer.
US Army Captain, led settlers in California during the
beginning of Mexican-American War.
People –300 pt question?
Who was John Fremont?
Mining –300 pt answer.
First person at a mining site, claimed it
Mining –300 pt question?
What was ‘stake a claim’?
Trails –500 pt answer.
Began at 4 AM and ended in a circle at night.
Trails –500 pt question?
What was an average day like on the
wagon trails?
Travelers –500 pt answer
By 1860 there were about 40,000 Mormons located
there.
Travelers- 500 pt question?
What is Salt Lake City?
Texas-500 pt answer
‘Remember the Alamo’
Texas –500 pt question?
What was the rally cry for the Texas troops at
San Jacinto?
People –500 pt answer.
Zachary Taylor
People –500 pt question?
Whose troops called him‘old rough and ready’?
Mining –500 pt answer.
San Francisco
Mining- 500 pt question?
What California city’s population exploded in the
wake of the Gold Fever?