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John Deere United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil ( )

(January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852) was a leading American statesman and senator from Massachusetts during the period leading up to the Civil War. Daniel Webster

Stephen Austin Known as the Father of Texas, led the second and ultimately successful colonization of the region by bringing 300 families from the United States.

Mexican general who tried to crush the Texas revolt and who lost battles to Winfield Scott and Zachary Taylor in the Mexican War ( Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

United States politician and military leader who fought to gain independence for Texas from Mexico and to make it a part of the United States ( ), First president of the Republic of Texas Sam Houston

1842 between the US and the Brits, settled boundry disputes in the North West, fixed most borders between US and Canada, talked about slavery and excredition Webster-Ashburton Treaty

This expression was popular in the 1840s. Many people believed that the U.S. was destined to secure territory from "sea to sea," from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. This rationale drove the acquisition of territory. Manifest Destiny

Treaty that ended the Mexican War, granting the U.S. control of Texas, New Mexico, and California in exchange for $15 million Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

The recommendation that the U.S. offer Spain $20 million for Cuba. It was not carried through in part because the North feared Cuba would become another slave state. Ostend Manifesto

between U.S. and Great Britain agreeing that neither country would try to obtain exclusive rights to canal across Isthmus of Panama; Abrogated by U.S. in 1881 Clayton-Bulwer Treaty

California, Colorado, Nevada, Black Hills of the Dakotas, where gold or silver rushes began; boomtowns started up Mining Frontier

a large migration of people to a newly discovered gold field Gold rush

Miners rused to Coloroado, Nevado, the Black Hills of the Dakotas, and other western states to search for silver. Silver Rush

A period of time in which hundreds of thousands of citizens moved west and began to farm the frontier, very much due to the Homestead Act of 1862, which offered 160 acres of free public land to any family that settled there for a period of 5 years. Farming Frontier

San Francisco, Denver, Salt Lake City created because of gold rush or natural resources Urban Frontier

Industrialization of 1840s on created shoes, sewing machines, ready-to-wear clothing, firearms, precision tools, and iron products for railroads, etc. Industrial Technology

Heavy stream of settlers to the Oregon country Oregon Trail

May, 1836: Santa Anna treaty recognizes Texas claim to territory Mexico repudiates

Oregon settlers demand an end to join u.s British Occupation

Annexation to U.S refused by who ? Jackson

Americans encouraged to move into Texas (1820) The Texas Revolution

This was the famine that occurred in Ireland that killed of thousands of people because the main potato crop could not grow because of bad soil that year Potato Famine

the mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico Alamo

elected Vice President and became the 10th President of the United States when Harrison died ( ) John Tyler

This Colonel, under the direction of Polk, led a small army that captured Santa Fe with no opposition. He then proceeded to California where he joined a conflict already in progress that was being staged jointly by American settlers Stephen Kearney

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Strip of land in present-day Arizona and New Mexico that was acquired by the U.S. in 1853 for $10 million. Gadsden Purchase