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- By 1850, only one year after the gold rush, the population of ____________________ had grown so much that the people who lived there asked if it could become a state.
- Narcissa Whitman and another missionary, ___________ _______________, were the 1st white women to travel west of the Rockies.
- He was Commodore Perry's interpreter in Japan, and 1 of the 3 missionaries who had tried to return 7 shipwrecked sailors to their home.
- In 1859 this territory became a state.
- The young Marine that accompanied Commodore Perry who went for the sole purpose of learning all he could about Japan and to return back there as a missionary.
- He became the 1st Baptist missionary to Japan.
- He conducted the 1st Protestant worship service in Japan.
- Slowly, more people back East heard about Oregon. To make the journey, Oregon-bound pioneers traveled to ___________________, ________________, where the Oregon Trail began, and then waited until enough pioneer families came to form a wagon train.
- This treaty, signed in 1858, opened Japan to Christian missionaries
- An almost 2,000 mile long trail, stretching over wild country and hazardous mountains.
- Jonathan Goble evented this because his wife became very sick and was unable to walk. His invention became so popular it became a famous mode of transportation in Japan.
- This territory included the present states of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho as wells as part of Montana and Wyoming.
- The naval officer President Fillmore sent to Japan with a fleet of naval ships to open Japan for trade with the United States.
- In 1853, President _____________ __________________ sent a high-ranking officer to Japan to open up trade between the United States and the Japanese.
- He was the leader of the Americans during the Battle of New Orleans
- President ___________ ____. ___________ sent General Zachary Taylor, who would later become the 12th President, with an army to guard the Rio Grande.
- The movement of the forty-niners westward seeking gold was called the _____________________ _____________ ________________
- The war with Mexico began in ___________ and lasted for 2 years.
- In 1812 American sailors were kidnapped and forced into the British navy; the United States declared war on England starting the ________ _____ __________.
- In 1853 the United States purchased a strip of land made up of the southern parts of what are now New Mexico and Arizona to build a railroad. This land purchase was called