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| what year was the purchase of the Louisiana territory |
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| what was the year of the acquisition of flordia |
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| what year was the battle of the alamo |
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| 1836 also it lasted 2 weeks |
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| what years was Texas a republic |
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| what year was the annexation of Texas |
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| what year did Oregon country become part of the usa |
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| what year was the Mexican american war Mexican american war |
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| what year was the treaty of Guadalupe hildago |
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| what year was the Gadsen purchase |
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| what was a benefit of the Louisiana purchase |
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| who offered the louisana territory to the us |
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| France, because they needed money to go to war with great Brittian if they lost the war they did not want great braitain to get it |
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| in the battle of the alamo why did american texans revolt |
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| because they wanted a state of their own |
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| why did general Santa Anna bring men |
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| who was the us fighting in the battle of the alamo |
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| in what war did all texan men die |
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| what did president monroe order general jackson to do |
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| to protect the boarder of flordia and to not let the simoliane indians come in |
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| how did the us get flordia |
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| us offered money for flordia and spain agreed |
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| what did general Jackson do |
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| in what event did Texans fought and won their independence from mexico to become their own country . |
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| what were senators scared of when texas joined the usa |
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| some senators thought they might start a war by joining the usa |
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| why did citizens want to join the usa |
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| most texans were americans and wanted texas to be apart of the usa |
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| what was presidents Polk slogan and what did it mean |
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54 40 that was the longitude and latitude of the territory that polk was going to capture for the united states oregon country
oregon country |
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| how did the us get the land oregon country |
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| after polk was elected he decided not to go to war but to use diplomacy to divide the land |
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| important note statement 1 |
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| the usa and great braitin shared ownership of oregon country |
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| why did the Mexican american war begin |
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because of where the boarder was
us thought it was the rio grande river and mexico thought it was it was the nueces river |
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| who won the mexican american war |
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| they fought for the boarder the united states won the property |
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| what ended the mexican american war |
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| treaty of Guadalupe hildago |
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| what propery did the us get from guadalupe hildago |
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| colorado ,california,nevada, utah wyoming and parts of new mexico and arizona |
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| how much did the us pay for the land of the treaty of guadalupe hildago |
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| what did the us promise to do |
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| us promised to promised to protect mexican citizens how were on united states lands |
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| why did the us purchase the gadsen |
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the us needed flat road to build a railroad
they used parts of arizona and new mexico because it was flat land |
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| where did the us purchase the gadsen |
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Lewis & Clark
- make friendly contact with Indian groups
- Find a water route across North America
- Find out what the US had bought |
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- rowing up stram
- rapids & waterfalls slowed them down
- Rocky Mountains difficult to cross
- Grizzly bears raided the camp |
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- mapped a route to the Pacific Ocean
- established good relations with western Indians
- brought back a lot of informaiton about the West
- Explorers inspired families to move west |
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- looking for valuable furs
- looking for freedom & adventure |
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- Accidents wre common
- disease
- wolves & bears |
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- explored most of the West
- their routes became the Oregon & California Trails
- their trading posts became supply station of settlers moving west
- personal journals tell their tales |
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| - teach the American Indians about "Black Book" (the bible) |
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- travel through the Rockies was difficult
- Missionaries knew little about the tribes they wanted to convert |
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- encouraged settlers to move to Oregon
- Brought measles which killed many American Indians |
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- wives and mothers came with the family
- single women came looking for a homestead, a husband or new opportunities |
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| Pioneer Women - Hardships |
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-on the trail: accidents, disease, drownings
- African American female freed slaves had bounty hunters looking for them |
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-Pioneer Women brought order to the chaos of the West
- wherever pioneer women settled schools, churches, libraries literary societies and charitable groups began
- led the way in giving women the right to vote |
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| -looking for a place to settle that was safe and where they could follow their religion |
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-In the mid-west they were pushed from one town to the next. People harrased them
- leader, Joseph Smith killed by an angry mob in Illinois |
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-learned irrigation techniques
-buit dams and canals
-Salt Lake City became the center of the Mormon churge
-the church has grown into a worldwide religion |
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-Getting to California was difficult
They braved rough ocean, dangerous jungles and a difficult overland journey
- mining camps had no police to keep order
- digging was hard work |
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-Gold rush caused people to flock to CA. Population grew so quicly CA became the first state in the far west.
-the rush of people to CA lead to warfare and disease that killed many CA Indians.
-Califorios lost their land |
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| - Money because they were poor in China |
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- foreign miners paid a monthly fee to mine
- Chineese shaks were burnt
- chinese were beaten to run them off
- a lot of prejudice against them |
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- Chines immigrants left the mines to open restaurants, laundries and stores in CA
- chinatown remains today in San Francisco
- helped build the West & kept their culture |
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