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| 4350559649 | John Charles Fremont | know for the Bear Flag Revolution | 0 | |
| 4350560302 | James W. Marshall | known for the California Gold Rush | 1 | |
| 4350562964 | Jedediah Smith | mountain man | 2 | |
| 4350564092 | Brigham Young | Mormon leader | 3 | |
| 4350564801 | Alamo | remembrance of this stirred Sam Houston and his army to victory | 4 | |
| 4350567601 | Battle of San Jacinto | resulted in the capture of Santa Anna | 5 | |
| 4350570758 | Gadsden Purchase | completed the acquisition of territory for the 48 contiguous United States | 6 | |
| 4350573045 | Mexican Cession | the area Mexico gave up at the end of the Mexican War | 7 | |
| 4350574207 | Mexican War | carried out by "Old Rough and Ready" and "Old Fuss and Feathers"; served as a "training ground" for the Civil War to come | 8 | |
| 4350575830 | popular soveriengty | principle of allowing people in the territories to decide whether they wished to allow slavery | 9 | |
| 4350577349 | California | major territory brought into American hands by the Bear Flag Revolution | 10 | |
| 4350579792 | Zachary Taylor | American general who gained great popularity and success during the Mexican War | 11 | |
| 4350582176 | Oregon Territory | claimed by U.S. and Britain before 1846; boundary was set at the 49th parallel | 12 | |
| 4350584433 | Mormons | group that was responsible for settling much of the Great Basin area of the West; had trouble | 13 | |
| 4350585856 | Santa Anna | Mexican president who opposed Texan independence | 14 | |
| 4350589276 | Rio Grande | believed to be the border between Texas and Mexico at the outbreak of the Mexican War | 15 | |
| 4350593197 | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | the agreement that ended the Mexican War | 16 | |
| 4350593198 | Doughfaces | the name given to Norther Democrats who were willing to compromise on the political problems of the 1850's; Franklin Pierce was known as one | 17 | |
| 4350599105 | Millard Fillmore | succeeded to the presidency when Zachary Taylor died while in office | 18 | |
| 4350600804 | Sutter's Fort | related to start of the California Gold Rush | 19 | |
| 4350602719 | Manifest Destiny | associated with President James K. Polk | 20 | |
| 4350605664 | Bueno Vista | Zachary Taylor became the hero of this as the last event in the Mexico/Texas conflict | 21 | |
| 4350608205 | reasons for moving West | riches, farmland, missionary work | 22 | |
| 4350609688 | Compromise of 1850 | allowed popular sovereignty, introduced a stricter Fugitive Slave Law, and outlawed the slave trade in the District of Columbia; Stephen Douglas helped to pass this aggreement | 23 | |
| 4350615943 | Oregon Trail | trail was used more by traders than settlers moving to new homes | 24 | |
| 4350618647 | Texas | an independent country before annexed to the United States; those against slavery protested the admittance of Texas to the union because they feared it would be divided into multiple slave states | 25 | |
| 4350619649 | Wilmot Proviso | would have banned slavery in any territory taken from Mexico | 26 | |
| 4350621534 | Marcus Whitman | missionary in the West | 27 | |
| 4350624998 | Methodist Missionaries | first to seek permanent homes in Oregon | 28 | |
| 4350625968 | Spanish missions | these were set up along the coast of California before the land fell into American hands | 29 | |
| 4350628037 | trappers & traders | first white men to arrive in a western area | 30 | |
| 4350736985 | American settlers in Texas | helped Texas to prosper but did not blend into Spanish population as Mexico has hoped | 31 | |
| 4350748474 | James Polk | won the election of 1844 by promising "All of Oregon, All of Texas" to the American people | 32 |
