1. Oregon Trail

2. Overland trail from Missouri to Oregon

3. Donner Party

4. A group who were going west and tried a short cut near California.
Stranded for months in winter
Resorted to cannibalism for survival

5. Santa Fe Trail

6. Route from Missouri to Santa Fe New Mexico
New Mexico was good for growing cotton
Mexican Gov’t encouraged settlement

7. Missouri Compromise

8. North of Missouri is Free State
South of Missouri is Slave state
All other Free of slavery
Missouri enters as a slave state; Maine as a free state

9. Santa Ana

10. Mexican leader who ordered all Americans be disarmed and deported from Texas
Defeated in retaliation for the Battle of Alamo

11. Alamo

12. Battle where 200 Americans fought Santa Ana’s troops and lost
Battle where 200 Americans fought Santa Ana’s troops and lost. Prisoners shot.

13. Mexican War Cause

14. Manifest Destiny
Southern desire to expand slavery
Mexico refuses to sell CA
Mexico angered over annex of Texas.

15. Effect of Mexican War

16. Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago- Rio Grande border with Mexico
Gadsden Purchase- last part of lower continental US
Sectional Tension

17. Wilmont Provisio

18. Attempt to outlaw slavery in territory gained from Mexico