1. MANIFEST DESTINY

4. THE MEXICANS WON THEIR FREEDOM FROM SPAIN AND OWNED TEXAS
THE MEXICANS WON THEIR FREEDOM FROM SPAIN AND OWNED TEXAS. THERE WERE MANY MISSIONS IN TEXAS TO CONVERT THE INDIANS TO CHRISTIANITY.

5. MEXICAN SETTLER IN TEXAS

6. TEJANOS: MEXICAN SETTLERS IN TEXAS

7. VAQUERO…
Mexican
Cowboys

10. INDIAN RAIDS ON EARLY SPANISH SETTLERS.

12. APACHE SETTLEMENT

14. BUFFER ZONE BETWEEN MEXICO AND THE INDIANS AND U.S.
MEXICO ENCOURAGED AMERICAN IMMIGRATION TO TEXAS IN ORDER TO POPULATE THE AREA AND TO SERVE AS A
BUFFER ZONE BETWEEN MEXICO AND THE INDIANS AND U.S.

15. The capital of Texas is named
STEPHEN AUSTIN:
One of the original
Emprasarios in Texas…
The capital of Texas is named
after them.
MOSES AUSTIN:
father of Stephen

16. An empresario was an individual who, in the early years of the settlement of Texas, had been granted the right to settle on Mexican land in exchange for recruiting and taking responsibility for new settlers.

17. AMERICAN SETTLERS WERE SUPPOSED TO BECOME MEXICAN CITIZENS, CATHOLICS, AND NOT SUPPOSED TO BRING IN SLAVES…THEY BROKE ALL THESE RULES.

18. President of Mexico, Antonio López
de Santa Anna…wanted to punish the Texans
For not following
rules

19. IN 1835, AMERICANS IN TEXAS REBELLED AGAINST THE
MEXICAN GOVERNMENT TO HOPEFULLY BECOME A NEW U.S. STATE. THIS IS CALLED THE TEXAS REBELLION.

20. THE ALAMO: AN OLD SPANISH MISSION TURNED INTO A FORT BY THE AMERICANS

21. THE SIEGE AND BATTLE AT THE ALAMO BETWEEN AMERICAN
AND MEXICAN TROOPS LASTED 13 DAYS.

23. DAVY CROCKETT GETS HIS

24. SAM HOUSTON LED THE TEXAS SETTLER’S ARMY AGAINST SANTA ANNA

25. AN INJURED SAM HOUSTON ACCEPTS SANTA ANNA’S SURRENDER AT THE BATTLE OF SAN JACINTO

28. LONE STAR REPUBLIC: THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS

29. Republic
Of Texas

30. EARLY TEXAS RANGERS: LAWMEN WHO ALSO FOUGHT AGAINST THE COMMANCHE INDIANS

31. THE COUNTRY CALLED THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS BECAME A STATE IN 1845…CAUSING THE MEXICAN WAR.

32. 54 40 or fight!!! Is my campaign slogan
JAMES K. POLK

33. 54-40 OR FIGHT!!

40. INDEPENDENCE ROCK, WYOMING

45. THE REEDS: THEIR FAMILY DID NOT EAT PEOPLE!

46. JOSEPH SMITH AND MORONI

50. BRIGHAM YOUNG

51. THE MORMONS CROSS THE FROZEN MISSISSIPPI
FROM NAVOO ILLINOIS

54. THE MORMONS WENT TO UTAH
WHICH WAS OUTSIDE THE U.S.

58. THE MODERN CITY OF SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH IS LOCATED
WHERE BRIGHAM YOUNG SETTLED THE MORMONS AFTER TRAVELING FROM ILLINOIS

60. MORMON TEMPLE IN SALT LAKE CITY

61. WHEN THE U.S. OBTAINED UTAH FROM THE MEXICANS, YOUNG WANTED THIS TO BE A STATE WITH HIM AS GOVERNER.

62. On September 11, 1857, a pioneer wagon train bound for California was attacked by Mormons and their Indian allies men, women, and children were massacred...This was the Mountain Meadows Massacre.

63. Brigham Young called himself the Muhammad of the West and his Quran was the Book of Mormon.

64. BRIGHAM YOUNG IN LATER YEARS

66. HIS LAST WIFE TOLD THE NATION ABOUT YOUNG”S POLYGAMOUS HABITS…THEY WERE SHOCKED!!!

69. MEXICAN WAR

72. BEAR FLAG REVOLT IN CALIFORNIA

76. WILMOT
THE WILMOT PROVISO TO THE TREATY OF GUADALUPE
HILDAGO SAID THAT THE NEW LAND WE STOLE FROM
MEXICO SHOULD BE SLAVE FREE: THE PROVISO IS REMOVED.

77. A worker discovers gold in the American River next to
John Sutter’s sawmill near Sacramento.

79. Sutter actually had a fort he bought from the Russians.

81. THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH OF 1849 BEGINS!

90. MANY CHINESE WENT TO THE GOLD FIELDS

92. SAMUEL MORSE AND THE TELEGRAPH

96. TREATY OF FORT LARAMIE IN 1868