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1
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Invented the metal plow

A

John Deere

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2
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Mexicans in Texas were called this

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Tejanos

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3
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Invented the mechanical reaper

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Cyrus McCormick

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4
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Americans in Texas called themselves

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Texians

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5
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Name one mountain man

A

Kit Carson - Jim Bridger

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6
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Name three east to west trails

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Oregon Trail, Mormon Trail, and California Trail

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7
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The Alamo is located in what city?

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San Antonio

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8
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To give up or give away

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Cede

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9
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1st rendezvous held here

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Henry Forks, Wyoming

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10
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Wagons used by settlers moving west

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Conestoga

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11
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People who settled on land they didn’t own

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Squatters

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12
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Santa Anna was deleted by Houston in this place

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San Jacinto

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13
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Settlers moving west said that prairie scooners looked like ships sailing on…

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A sea of grass

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14
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Name of California before it became a state

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Bear Flag Republic

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15
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First empresario

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Stephen Austin

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16
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Led Mormons to Utah

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Brigham Young

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17
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Name of Texas before it became a state

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Lonestar Republic

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18
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Made a knife that was named after him

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James Bowie

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19
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Texans refused to surrender their cannon in this town

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Gonzales

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20
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Treaty ended the war with Mexico

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Guadalupe Hidalgo

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21
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Believed that he was executed after the battle of the Alamo

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Davy Crockett

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22
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Military leader and first to die at the Alamo

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William Travis

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23
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People who were given land to bring settlers to Texas

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Empresarios

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24
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Led the American Army in the war with Mexico

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Winfield Scott

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25
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The act of being taken as a state by the U.S. government

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Annexation

26
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Used to determine which men would stay and fight in the Alamo

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Line drawn in the Sand

27
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Name either of the two native tribes whose fierce nature made Mexicans hesitate to move to Texas

A

Apache or Comanche

28
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Dictator of Mexico

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Santa Anna

29
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Americans who traveled west in wagons

A

Over landers

30
Q

Fannan and his troops were executed at…

31
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Yearly meeting held by mountain men

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Rendezvous

32
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Women was a survivor of the Alamo

A

Susanna Dickinson

33
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5 states that belonged to the U.S. because of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

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California, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado

34
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Fur trading post was founded by Jacob Aston on the coast of Washington

35
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Members of this party practiced cannabilism

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Donner party

36
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President of Texas

A

Sam Houston

37
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Idea that Americans were meant to occupy western lands

A

Manifest Destiny

38
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Pathfinder

A

John Frémont

39
Q

Mormons called the city they founded in Utah…

40
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Gave squatters the right to but 160 acres of land for $1.25 per acre

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Preemption act of 1830

41
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The U.S. And Britain both claimed this land in the northwest

42
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Mexicans called Texians

43
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Fort was a major stop for settlers moving west

A

Fort Laramie

44
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First 300 people brought to Texas by Stephen Austin

45
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Capital of the Texians/Texicans

A

Washing on the Brazos

46
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3 leaders of the Alamo

A

Davy Crockett
Williams Travis
James Bowie

47
Q

Alabama was originally part of the ____ territory

A

Mississippi

48
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1st settler who came into Pickens county

A

Josiah Tilley

49
Q

Alabama became a state in _____

50
Q

What was Alabama’s first capital

51
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Capital was moved to _____ in 1836

A

Tuscaloosa

52
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Tilley came to ____ in 1817

A

Pickensville

53
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______ is the oldest town in PC

A

Pickensville

54
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___ became the county seat in 1830

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Carrollton

55
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Named for battle of Cerro Gordo

56
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Lorenzo Dow came and preached that this certain town needed ____ and they were named ____

A

Reforming; Reform

57
Q

Aliceville is made of two towns…
Named for…
Established…

A

Bridgeville and Franconia; David Cochrane’s wife, Alice; 1904

58
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Discussion: The Alamo

A

You will have to do that on your own :)

59
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Young lawyer who became governor of Carrollton

A

Samuel B. Moore

60
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Flower that blooms only at the Cahaba River

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Cahaba Lily

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