Which territory became American under an 1846 treaty with Britain that fixed the northern boundary at the 49th parallel?

Wagon companies bound for Oregon and for California followed one road across the plains and then parted. Look at the map. At which place did the two roads separate?

In 1846 President Polk ordered Zachary Taylor's army into the land between the two rivers on the map. Which river did the United States insist was the southern boundary of Texas?

In 1844 some Democrats demanded the whole Oregon country up to the line marked 54 40 north. The treaty of 1846 set the boundary at 49 north instead. Look at the map. Which lettered zone did the United States give up by accepting that line?

The arrow traces the journey the Latter-day Saints made west from Nauvoo, reaching the marked destination in July 1847. Look at the map. Which government held that valley when they arrived?

In 1853 the United States paid Mexico $10 million for a strip of land wanted as a level railroad route to the Pacific across the far south. What is that purchase called?

The highlighted state's land came into the United States as part of which acquisition?

In March 1847 General Winfield Scott landed an army at Veracruz and marched inland. Which city did he capture that September, ending the main fighting?

A wagon company left Independence in April and traveled west. Look at the map. In what order did it reach these places?

President Tyler could not get the two-thirds Senate vote a treaty of annexation with Texas required. How was Texas brought into the Union in 1845 instead?

The 1846 treaty with Britain put the Oregon boundary on the 49th parallel, but made one exception to that straight line. What was the exception?

The Gadsden Purchase of 1853 completed which present-day border?

What did the Wilmot Proviso, first attached to a military funding bill in 1846, propose?

The Oregon Trail ran roughly 2,000 miles. Where did it begin and where did it end?

Santa Anna was captured at San Jacinto in April 1836 and signed agreements at Velasco ending the fighting. What did the government in Mexico City do about them?

Congress passed the California Land Act of 1851. What did it require of Californios holding land under Spanish and Mexican grants?

Northern Democrats and antislavery Whigs who could not get the Wilmot Proviso past the Senate formed a new party in 1848 and ran former president Martin Van Buren for president. Which party was it?

In January 1846 Polk marched Taylor's army south from the Nueces to the Rio Grande, into land Mexico claimed. In April a Mexican force attacked an American patrol there. What did Polk do next?

The gold strike drew about 80,000 people to California in 1849 alone, and in 1850 the territory asked to enter the Union as a free state. Why did that application throw Congress into crisis?

Between 1848 and 1870 California's Native population fell from roughly 150,000 to about 30,000. Which combination best accounts for that collapse?

The Latter-day Saints were driven from Missouri and then from Illinois, and Joseph Smith was killed by a mob at Carthage jail in 1844. What did Brigham Young decide to do?

Texas won its independence in 1836 and asked at once to join the United States, but it waited nine years. Why did Washington hold back so long?

By 1850 emigrant wagons had driven off game along the Platte River road and carried cholera into Native camps. In 1851 the United States gathered Plains nations at Fort Laramie. What did that treaty ask of them?

Polk recalled Nicholas Trist from Mexico in October 1847, but Trist stayed and signed a treaty anyway in February 1848. Polk dismissed him and still sent the treaty to the Senate. Why send it up?

Writing in December 1845, the editor John L. O'Sullivan claimed 'the right of our manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us.' What claim is that line making?

In his message of May 11, 1846 Polk told Congress that 'Mexico has passed the boundary of the United States, has invaded our territory and shed American blood upon the American soil.' What claim is he making?

Article VIII of the treaty ending the war says Mexicans in the ceded lands 'shall be free to continue where they now reside, or to remove at any time to the Mexican Republic, retaining the property which they possess.' What does it guarantee?

Put these events in the order they happened: gold was found at Sutter's Mill; the Oregon Treaty was signed; Congress declared war on Mexico; the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed.

Put these in the order the United States acquired them: the Gadsden Purchase; Texas; the Oregon country south of the 49th parallel; the Mexican Cession.

Put these Texas events in order: Santa Anna's army took the Alamo; Sam Houston's army won at San Jacinto; Texas declared independence; Congress admitted Texas as a state.