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| were established to train teachers |
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| first president of the Republic of Texas |
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| place where the Mormon's migration ended |
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| was involved with the prison reform movement |
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| California's name as an independent nation |
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| incorporating a territory within the domain of a country |
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| were groups that preached about the evils of alcohol |
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| this word can be defined as "the freeing of enslaved people" |
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| the most popular east- to-west route carved out by early adventurers |
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| American Colonization Society |
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| was formed to move African Americans to Africa |
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| the idea that the nation was meant to spread all the way to the Pacific |
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| feared that the increasing flow of emigrant across the Great Plains would disrupt the buffalo on which they depended on the buffalo on which they depended for their livelihood |
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| time when religious leaders organized to revive American's commitment to religion |
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| this escaped slave became a brilliant thinker and electrifying speaker who published his own antislavery newspaper called the North Star |
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| agents who contracted with the Mexican government to bring a certain number of residents in exchange for large grants of Texas lands |
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| were first formed to spread the word of God but soon turned to combating social problems |
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| one of the leaders of the education movement who helped create the Massachusetts board of education |
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| name given to the fist pioneers because they settle on lands they did not own |
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| led several thousand Mormons along the Mormon Trail in search of religious freedoms |
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| this movement for the immediate end to slavery was the most divisive of all the reform movements |
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| Americans who drove across the continent in hope of finding land on which to settle |
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| this rule was passed by the House of Representatives in 1836 and set aside all abolitionist petitions without debate |
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| was based on the idea that people can overcome the mind's limits, and it emphasized feelings over reason and sought communion with the natural world |
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| former Spanish mission in which 150 rebels and 24 noncombatants were holed up when Santa Anna's troops arrived at San Antonio |
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| promised during his election campaign to annex Texas and Oregon, and buy California from Mexico |
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| treaty in which the United States promised the Native Americans that certain territories would belong to them forever |
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| this woman's rights leader seemed willing to argue that woman can find fulfillment outside of a hired employment |
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| was co-founder of the Boston Newspaper the Liberator, and helped this antislavery movement gain new momentum |
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| asked Mexico to loosen the taxes on imports and reopen Texas to American immigrants |
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| Fifty-Four Forty or Fight |
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| this phrase referring to the boundary of Oregon was chanted by the Polk supporters |
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| this Presbyterian minister insisted that the nations's citizenry should take charge of building a better society |
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| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
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| treaty in which Mexico gave the United States more than 500,000 square miles of territory and accepted Rio Grande as the southern border of Texas |
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