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John Deere
United States industrialist who
manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886)
(January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852) was a leading American statesman and senator from Massachusetts during the
period leading up to the Civil War.
Daniel Webster
Stephen Austin
Known as the Father of Texas, led the second and ultimately successful colonization of the region by bringing 300 families
from the United States.
Mexican general who tried to crush the Texas revolt and who
lost battles to Winfield Scott and Zachary Taylor in the Mexican War (1795-1876
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
United States politician and military leader who fought to gain independence for Texas from Mexico and to make it a
part of the United States (1793-1863), First president of the
Republic of Texas
Sam Houston
1842 between the US and the Brits, settled boundry disputes in the North West, fixed most
borders between US and Canada, talked about slavery
and excredition
Webster-Ashburton Treaty
This expression was popular in the 1840s. Many people believed that the U.S. was destined to secure territory from "sea to sea," from the Atlantic to
the Pacific Ocean. This rationale drove the acquisition of territory.
Manifest Destiny
Treaty that ended the Mexican War, granting the U.S. control of Texas, New Mexico, and
California in exchange for $15 million
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The recommendation that the U.S. offer Spain $20 million for Cuba. It was not carried through in part because the
North feared Cuba would become another slave state.
Ostend Manifesto
between U.S. and Great Britain agreeing that neither country would
try to obtain exclusive rights to canal across Isthmus of Panama;
Abrogated by U.S. in 1881
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
California, Colorado, Nevada, Black Hills of the Dakotas, where gold or silver rushes
began; boomtowns started up
Mining Frontier
a large migration of people to a newly discovered gold field
Gold rush
Miners rused to Coloroado, Nevado, the Black Hills of the Dakotas, and other western states to search for silver.
Silver Rush
A period of time in which hundreds of thousands of citizens moved west and
began to farm the frontier, very much due to the Homestead Act of 1862, which
offered 160 acres of free public land to any family that settled there for a period of
5 years.
Farming Frontier
San Francisco, Denver, Salt Lake City created because of gold rush or natural resources
Urban Frontier
Industrialization of 1840s on created shoes, sewing
machines, ready-to-wear clothing, firearms, precision tools, and iron products for
railroads, etc.
Industrial Technology
Heavy stream of settlers to the Oregon country
Oregon Trail
May, 1836: Santa Anna treaty recognizes Texas claim to
territory
Mexico repudiates
Oregon settlers demand an end to join u.s
British Occupation
Annexation to U.S refused by who ?
Jackson
Americans encouraged to move into Texas (1820)
The Texas Revolution
This was the famine that occurred in Ireland that killed of thousands of
people because the main potato crop could not grow because of bad soil
that year
Potato Famine
the mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa
Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico
Alamo
elected Vice President and became the 10th President of
the United States when Harrison died (1790-1862)
John Tyler
This Colonel, under the direction of Polk, led a small army that captured Santa Fe with no opposition. He then proceeded to California
where he joined a conflict already in progress that was being staged jointly by
American settlers
Stephen Kearney
Final Jeopardy Topic
Strip of land in present-day Arizona and New Mexico that was acquired by the U.S. in
1853 for $10 million.
Gadsden Purchase