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. Once the Republic of Texas was freed by Santa Anna, Texans elected __________ their first president and called for the annexation of Texas to the United States.

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. The primary obstacle to the achievement of U.S. statehood for Texas was

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. Preparations for migration from the Midwest to the West took up to __________, and families could expect to spend another __________ on the trail.

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. Travelers west funneled through St. Louis, crossed Missouri to rendezvous with wagon trains near St. Joseph or Independence, Missouri, and then followed one of two main routes west: either the __________, at the 42nd parallel, or the __________, along the Arkansas River.

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. The ill-fated Donner Party was caught in the __________ by an early winter; 42 of the 87 people in the party starved to death.

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. White travelers who headed west thought of themselves as settlers journeying through U.S. territories; native Americans thought of these whites as __________ Indian country.

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. The Sioux, Pawnee, Arapaho, Shoshone, and Cheyenne nations resided throughout the

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. More than 250,000 settlers crossed the plains between 1840 and 1860; __________ were killed by hostile Indians.

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. By the mid-1830s, federal policy toward Indians had begun to shift: later removals of Indians aimed more overtly at relocation culminating in

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. The most significant cause of decline in the population of western Indians after the arrival of white Europeans in their area was

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. Which of the following statements best describes Polk's presidency?

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. The first Whig candidate to be elected president was

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. President John Tyler's secretary of state negotiated the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, which

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. James K. Polk won the presidential election of 1844 on a platform favoring

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. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the war with Mexico and recognized the Rio Grande as the border of Texas and granted the United States the territories encompassed in the present states of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, and

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. By 1839, some Americans were convinced that Texas was destined to become the "land of refuge for the American slaveholders."

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. President Van Buren submitted Texas's request for statehood to Congress in 1838.

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. For most white Americans, the fulfillment of America's manifest destiny was Texas.

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. In the 1830s, missionaries headed west into Oregon territory because they had heard that Indian tribes of the West hungered for instruction in Christianity.

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. Most of the migrants who headed west were farming families of moderate means, pushed out of the Midwest by the hard times of 1837.

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