Manifest Destiny

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  1. 4. What happened when the gold rush happened
  2. 5. Some Americans were mad about the war in Texas. This is an example of ______.
  3. 7. Houston wanted them to abandon their position to prevent other forts being overrun by the Mexicans.
  4. 8. were settlers who got recruited by the government
  5. 13. The Texas Declaration of _______ was similar to the Declaration of the US.
  6. 17. Louisiana territory was added to the US in 1803 for 15 million in what purchase________.
  7. 18. O’Sullivan thought it was American’s _____ to overspread and explore new boundaries all the way to the Pacific.
  8. 19. people who acted as police, judge, jury, executor for concerned cities to protect themselves
  9. 20. Gave Texas its independence from Mexico and let them continue the westward expansion.
  10. 25. son of man who father owned a mining operation in Missouri. So he recruited 300 American families to settle along the Brazos River.
  11. 26. Mexican troops tried to seize a cannon held by Texans
  12. 28. as people rushed to a new area to look for gold they built new communities called_______.
  13. 29. The first settlers in the Colorado River in Texas than Stephen F. recruited.
  14. 30. People set foot for the Great Migration on this trail. They left the US to go to Oregon.
  15. 31. People who flocked from California to get gold
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  1. 1. People from both United States and Great Britain could settle here
  2. 2. the latitude line that splits Oregon territory and current border for US
  3. 3. a war general marched soldiers to the Nueces River and the Rio Grande
  4. 6. The laws that made the Mexicans want the US settlers to follow
  5. 9. person who became president of Mexico
  6. 10. the country that joined Oregon with us
  7. 11. Mexico gave US, California, and New Mexico in what was called the ______.
  8. 12. The slogan referred to the line of latitude that democrats thought should be the nations northern border in Oregon.
  9. 14. Santa Anna found a small Texan force barricaded inside a nearby mission
  10. 15. In this treaty Mexico gave up all claims to Texas and agreed Rio Grande was the border.
  11. 16. Received the democratic party’s nomination for president.
  12. 20. a what state would upset the balance of _____ and free states in congress.
  13. 21. the president who help make the Louisiana purchase
  14. 22. Houston sent a delegation to Washington DC asking US to take control of Texas.
  15. 23. the border that Americans thought should separate Texas from Mexico
  16. 24. Mexicans who claimed Texas as their homes.
  17. 27. People fled to California to get this item for what_________