- In 1848, gold was discovered at a California site known as ...
Your answer:
"Forty-niners"
San Jacinto
the Peacock Lunchroom
Sutter's Mill
- The Mexican provinces of California and New Mexico were given to the United States under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and became known as ...
Your answer:
Annexation
Sutter's Mill
Mexican Cession
Oregon Trail
- In 1846, the Mexican government claimed that the dividing line between Mexico and Texas was ...
Your answer:
San Jacinto
Oregon Trail
Nueces River
Utah
- Members of a religious group that finally settled in the territory of Utah after being persecuted in other parts of the country.
Your answer:
"Forty-niners"
Mormons
Mexican Cession
O'Sullivans
- In 1846, Mexico's leaders had broken diplomatic relations with the United States over American efforts to buy the Mexican territory of ...
Your answer:
California
Oregon Trail
Utah
Itasca
- During the 1840's, most pioneer families reached Oregon over the ...
Your answer:
San Francisco Forty-niners goal line
Oregon Trail
Irving Park Expansion
California Trial
- As a result of the _____ of Texas, the Lone Star Republic became a territory of the United States during the early 1840's.
Your answer:
"Forty-niners"
Annexation
Nueces
San Jacinto
- In 1836 the Texan army (commanded by General Sam houston) won a great victory over the Mexican army at the Battle of ...
Your answer:
PickerFoot Place
San Jacinto
Panic of 1837
the Alamo
- During the 1840's, an American Journalist named ______ was the first American to use the term MANIFEST DESTINY.
Your answer:
PickerFoot Person
John L. O'Sullivan
San Jacinto
Thomas Jefferson
- The ____ caused serious economic problems in the United States and led to the closing of many banks and businesses and to widespread unemployment.
Your answer:
Flood of 1967
Panic of 1837
Annexation
Oregon Trail
- By 1850, the largest food-producing area in America was the ...
Your answer:
Peacock Lunchroom
North
West
South
- During the mid-1830's, the ruler of Mexico was ...
Your answer:
Santa Anna
Santa Clause
Sam Houston
Zachary Taylor
- The doctrine of Manifest Destiny stated that Americans ...
Your answer:
should increase trade with Europe.
had a right and a duty to settle new lands.
should replace the Manifold on their Destiny Automobiles.
should work to stop the spread of slavery.
- In 1850, many southerners believed that the balance in Congress between the free states and slave states would be upset ...
Your answer:
if the war with Mexico did not end.
if Sponge Bob got off the scale.
by the admission of Texas as a slave state.
by the admission of California as a free state.
- Many southerners supported the annexation of Texas because they ...
Your answer:
wanted to collect taxes from the Texans.
wanted to stop the spread of slavery.
felt that Texas would enter the Union as a slave state.
knew it would be the largest state after the snow melted in Alaska.
- In 1846, the northern boundary of Oregon was fixed at the ...
Your answer:
forty-ninth parallel.
forty-second parallel.
fifty-fourth parallel.
center court of the Portland Trailblazers.
- The first people from the United States to settle in California were ...
Your answer:
rude students who interrupted their classmates.
sailors and sea traders.
miners.
newpaper reporters.
- During the early 1840's, Mexico's leaders did not want to lose California to the United States, and as a result, they ...
Your answer:
signed a treaty with Great Britain.
halted the entry of American settlers into California.
signed a treaty with the United States.
stopped the seals from coming into the bay.
- In the early 1840's, most Americans believed that the Utah country ...
Your answer:
was little more than a desert.
had a lot of Jazz.
held great deposits of gold and silver.
was a rich farming region.
- The long-standing dispute between Mexico and the United States finally led to war in ...
Your answer:
1941
1846
1836
1848