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2. This trail was 2,000 miles long and took about 6 months to complete.

3. These people became guides on the Oregon Trail after it became more difficult to hunt and trap animals in the Rockies.

4. Term used for the conestoga type wagons used to travel. Hint: they resembled ships at sea

5. This is why Marcus and Narcissa Whitman were some of the first Americans to travel the Oregon Trail.

6. He was the first American to travel on the Sante Fe Trail. He made a lot of money selling his goods in the southeast.

7. Texas was controlled by this country after winning it’s independence from Spain in 1821. Texas then became independent before becoming part of the United States

8. He recruited 300 families to settle in Texas along the Brazos and Colorado Rivers, known as the “Old Three Hundred”

9. About 3000 Mexicans who claimed Texas as their home were called this

10. He was elected to be the first President of the independent Republic of Texas in 1836.

11. The number of Texans that defended the Alamo for 12 days against Mexican forces.

12. He was the President that wanted to go to war with Mexico so that the U.S. could acquire more land.

13. The United States claimed that the border between Texas and Mexico existed at this location.

14. American responsible for capturing Mexico City

15. The peace treaty that ended the Mexican- American War

16. Strip of land on the Southern Edge of Arizona and New Mexico that was sold to the U.S. for $10 Million

17. The name of California when it was an independent nation.

18. California was part of this section of land, acquired by the U.S. through the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

19. The name of the compromise by which California became a state.

20. People who took the law into their own hands during the Gold Rush years in California.

21. Year California became a state

22. He founded the Mormon Church in New York

23. Discovered by Jedediah Smith, this break through the Rockies became a main route settlers took to Oregon

24. The name of the community that would later become known as Salt Lake City

25. Davy Crockett died there

26. United States and Britain shared areas of the west. This is another term for it

27. The Oregon Trail

28. Mountain Men

29. Prairie Schooner

30. To convert Natives to Christianity (missionary work)

31. William Becknell

32. Mexico

33. Stephen Austin

34. Tejanos

35. Sam Houston

36. 187

37. James K. Polk

38. Rio Grande River

39. General Winfield Scott

41. Gadsden Purchase

42. The Bear Flag Republic

43. Mexican Cession

44. The Compromise of 1850

45. Vigilantes

46. 1850

47. Joseph Smith

48. South Pass

49. Deseret

50. The Alamo mission at San Antonio

51. Joint Occupation