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Trails – 100 pt. answer. Rich resources, land, mild climate.

Trails- 100 pt question? What are reasons people went West?

Travelers- 100 pt answer. Fur traders, trappers, adventurers

Travelers- 100 pt question? Who were the mountain men?

Texas – 100 pt answer. Started a colony in Texas in 1822 with the Original 300 families.

Texas- 100 pt question? Who is Stephen F. Austin?

People – 100 pt answer. Mexican cowboys

People – 100 pt question? What are vacqueros?

Mining – 100 pt answer. John Sutter

Mining – 100 pt question? Whose land was gold discovered on in California?

Trails – 200 pt answer. Missouri to Oregon about 2000 miles

Trails- 200 pt question? What is the Oregon Trail?

Travelers – 200 pt answer. A yearly meeting of fur traders from the Rocky Mountains.

Travelers – 200 pt question? What was the rendezvous?

Texas – 200 pt answer Leader of the Mexican Army

Texas – 200 pt question? Who was General Santa Ana?

People- 200 pt answer. James Polk

People pt question? Who was President during the Mexican-American War?

Mining – 200 pt answer. People rushed off to California in droves.

Mining- 200 pt question? Who were the forty-niners?

Trails- 300 pt answer. Independence, MO to Santa Fe, NM

Trails – 300 pt question? What was the Santa Fe Trail?

Travelers- 300 pt answer. Pioneers that settled in Utah for religious freedom.

Topic 2 – 300 pt question? Who were the Mormons?

Texas – 300 pt answer. Mission, San Antonio, fell to Mexico

Texas- 300 pt question? What was the Alamo?

People – 300 pt answer. US Army Captain, led settlers in California during the beginning of Mexican-American War.

People – 300 pt question? Who was John Fremont?

Mining – 300 pt answer. First person at a mining site, claimed it

Mining – 300 pt question? What was ‘stake a claim’?

Trails – 500 pt answer. Began at 4 AM and ended in a circle at night.

Trails – 500 pt question? What was an average day like on the wagon trails?

Travelers – 500 pt answer By 1860 there were about 40,000 Mormons located there.

Travelers- 500 pt question? What is Salt Lake City?

Texas- 500 pt answer ‘Remember the Alamo’

Texas – 500 pt question? What was the rally cry for the Texas troops at San Jacinto?

People – 500 pt answer. Zachary Taylor

People – 500 pt question? Whose troops called him ‘old rough and ready’?

Mining – 500 pt answer. San Francisco

Mining- 500 pt question? What California city’s population exploded in the wake of the Gold Fever?