- Who were the firsts people to establish colonies in North America?
- Who was the Catholic priest who urged the Spanish to use peace and kindness?
- Who was excluded from the phrase "All Men Are Created Equal" in the Declaration of Independence?
- What year did the Mayflower arrive in North America?
- Owner of a trading post and ranch that was often the first stopping point for Americans reaching California
- frontier forts established by the Spanish
- Explain how the movement of Americans across the continent and the actions of the U.S. government during the period from 1820 to 1848 fulfilled the National dream of Manifest Destiny. How did the westward migration change the United Sates and its relationships with the other nations?
- What religion was practiced by the Emperors of West Africa?
- Successful empresario who went to Mexico City to negotiate with the government
- settler who led the Mormon migration to what is now Utah
- Who was the Muslim King that ruled Mali?
- What is the Native American belief that everything has a spirit called?
- American general who led the California uprising that created the Bear Flag Republic
- Under the National Colonization Act, Mexico gave 26 empresarios large grants of Texas land in exchange for a promise to
- Which of the east-to-west routes carved out by mountain men was most popular with emigrants?
- Mexico closed its borders to further immigration by Americans in 1830, a move that angered settlers in Texas because
- After Mexican independence, California's ____________________ owned sprawling tracts of land and dominated California society.
- Even before the war with Mexico was officially declared, settlers in northern _________________________, led by American general John C. Frémont, had begun an uprising.
- On February 2, 848, Mexico's leaders signed the Treaty of ____________________ ceding more than 500,000 square miles of territory to the United States.
- The first convention of Texas settlers, held in the town of SanFelipe in 1832, asked Mexico to re-open Texas to immigration and loosen the Texas to immigration and to loosen the taxes on