Definitions from chapter 14 of the "Out of Many" AP United States History textbook
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| 792041125 | santa fe trail | the 900-mile trail opened by American merchants for trading purposes following Mexico's liberalization of the formerly restrictive trading policies of Spain | 0 | |
| 792041126 | manifest destiny | doctrine, first expressed in 1845, that the expansion of white Americans across the continent was inevitable and ordained by God | 1 | |
| 792041127 | oregon trail | overland trail of more than two thousand miles that carried American settlers from the Midwest to new settlements in Oregon, California, and Utah | 2 | |
| 792041128 | tejanos | persons of Spanish or Mexican descent born in Texas | 3 | |
| 792041129 | empresarios | agents who received a land grant from the Spanish or Mexican government in return for organizing settlements | 4 | |
| 792041130 | alamo | franciscan mission at San Antonio, Texas that was the site in 1836 of a siege and massacre of Texans by Mexican troops | 5 | |
| 792041131 | mexican american war | war fought between Mexico and the United States between 1846 and 1848 over control of territory in the southwest North America | 6 | |
| 792041132 | californios | californians of Spanish descent | 7 | |
| 792041133 | wilmot's proviso | the amendment offered by Pennsylvania Democrat David Wilmot in 1846 which stipulated that "as an express and fundamental condition to the acquisition of any territory from the Republic of Mexico...neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall never exist in any part of said territory." | 8 | |
| 792041134 | popular sovereignty | a solution to the slavery crisis suggested by Michigan senator Lewis Cass by which territorial residents, not Congress, would decide slavery's fate | 9 |
