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- In a sense, the Mexican War served as a training ground for the Civil War that was to come.
- The Americans who moved to Texas while it was under Mexican control quickly adapted to the new culture and blended in with the Spanish population.
- Methodist missionaries were the first Americans to seek permanent homes in Oregon
- Opponents of slavery protested the admittance of Texas into the Union because they feared Texas would be divided into several slave states.
- At the time of the outbreak of the Mexican War, the ________________ ______________ was what Americans believed to be the border between Texas and Mexico
- Trappers and traders were usually the first white men to arrive in a western area.
- The United States gained control of Oregon all the way to the 54* 40' line of latitude
- The ____________________ ____ __________________ __________________________ ended the Mexican War
- because of their controversial beliefs, Mormons had difficulty finding an area to settle
- Carried out by "Old Rough and Ready" and "Old Fuss and Feathers"
- Remembrance of this stirred Sam Houston and his army to victory
- The president most closely associated with Manifest Destiny was
- Which of the routes was used more by traders than by settlers moving to a new home?
- What was NOT a reason people were moving West during the early 1800's
- Describe Texas immediately before it was annexed by the United States
- Completed the acquisition of territory for the continental United States
- This route was rediscovered by Jedediah Smith and was the most important trail to the West
- Area Mexico gave up at the end of the Mexican War
- Which event occurred last:fall of the AlamoStephen Austin led settlers to Texasbattle of San JacintoZachary Taylor became the hero of Buena Vista
- Why did Mc Clellan stall during the Virginia peninsula campaign?