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| led by brigham young; moved west to develop salt lake city; most successful wagon trail |
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| first empressario; american who helped bring other americans to texas |
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| Treaty that ended war of 1812 |
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| led by andrew jackson; jan 8 1815; british attacked but jackson made them retreat; they attacked again and we won |
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| oregon territoy debate; phrase used to show that the U.S. wanted the geographical lines of 54 to 40 to extend up to canada |
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| original, formal name of the lewis and clark expedition in search of the water route |
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| acquiring of florida; took floria at a time of weakness from napolean b/c of his problems with haiti |
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| known for the bowie knife; famous warrior of the alamo |
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| where the texans gained revenge on the mexicans after the alamo |
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| president who sent livingston and monroe to britain to negotiate the acquiring of new orleans but ended up with the louisianna purchase |
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| president after harrison died; tried to acquire texas |
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| former andrew jackson protege; arrive in 1832 |
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| march 6, 1836; texans vs the mexicans |
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| author of the oregon trail |
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| president who defeated british in war of 1812 |
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| purchase of the entire middle part of the country; jefferson sent livingston and monroe to britain to negotiate deal for new orleans; results: 1. showed gov't can act quickly 2. doubled size of country 3. reduced 13 colonies power and 4. set upvision for democratic country ocean to ocean |
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| started in independence, MO; north to oregon over rockies; pioneers seeking western life |
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| started in independence, MO; goes south of rockies into santa fe |
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| texan commander at the battle of the alamo |
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| hunter; moved to texas to start a new life; murdered by santa anna after the alamo |
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| leader of the mexian army; real name antonio lopez; killed davey crockett |
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| treaty of guadalupe hildago |
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| spanish peace treaty signed february 2, 1848 |
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| annexation of california and oregon |
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| population moved into the areas; overran mexicans. "mexican land cession" |
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| main industry of the west |
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| leader of the american army at the battle of new orleans; caused british to retreat multiple times and won the battle |
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| president; led the americans into battle with the mexicans |
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| annexed by john tyler; december of 1845 |
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| british treat us as equals |
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| where lewis and clark settled the first winter on their expedition and met sacagawea |
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| first military post built to protect oregon trail emigrants |
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| james monroe and robert livingston |
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| sent by jefferson to britain to negotiate new orleans; ended up with louisianna purchase |
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| written by francis scott key; at the battle of 1812 at fort mchenry; at baltimore |
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| suffered from religious persecution; moved west; bulit bridges along the way; most civilized band of ppl moving west; establish salt lake city |
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| napoleans problematic island in the carribean |
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| russians were in canada; america wanted their land |
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| phrase created by john o sullivan which gave us the right and duty to expand across the NA continent |
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| who authorized the lewis and clark expedition |
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| major disagreements between mexico and US |
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| rio grande border; ppl moving into california; mexico was in debt with us |
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| president responsible for oregon and texas |
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