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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who was Jedediah Smith? ***Hint: Doesn't the name sound like a hillbilly name? | A well known mountain man. |
| Who are the mountain men? | Daring fur trappers and explorers who opened up the west. |
| What was the rendezvous system? ***Hint: What is a rendezvous?*** | Under this system, individual trappers came to a prearranged site for a rendezvous with traders from the east. |
| What event doubled the size of the young United States? ***Hint :Seriously? | The Louisiana Purchase |
| In what year did the Louisiana Purchase occur on? | 1803 |
| What is a land speculator? ***Hint: LAND speculator*** | People who bought huge areas of land and planned on selling the land later as the land prices grow. |
| How was the Santa Fe Trail a success? ***Hint: Once again...money makes the world go round...*** | They made a large profit because the New Mexicans were eager for new merchandise. |
| What trail(s) begins in independence? ***Error: Oh SORRY I mean Independence...*** | The Oregon Trail and the Santa Fe Trail. |
| What(or who)are the Tejanos? ***Hint: Teja = SPANISH*** | Tejanos are people of Spanish heritage who consider Texas as their home. |
| Who is Santa Anna? A.) a politician B.) a land speculator c.) a congressmen d.) president of Mexico e.) all of the above | d.) the president of Mexico |
| What is the belief that the U.S was meant to stretch across the whole North America? | Manifest Destiny |
| What treaty ended the Mexican-American War? | The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
| What(or who)are the Californios? | Settlers of Spanish or Mexican descent. |
| What(or who)are the forty-niners? ***Hint: Not the football team...just in case you're thinking...*** | Someone who went to California to find gold, starting in 1849. |
| Who was Mariano Vallejo? | A member of one of the oldest Spanish families in America, he owned 250,000 acres of land and was the military commander of Northern California when it belonged to Mexico. |
| What caused the California gold rush? | In 1848, John Sutter sent James Marshall to build a sawmill on his land. One day Marshall inspected the canal that brought water to Sutter's Mill and he saw a glimpse of something shining. He reached down and found gold. |
| Which Supreme Court case established judicial review? | Marbury v. Madison says that the Supreme Court can decide if a law is constitutional. |
| What were the causes of the Panic of 1837? ***Hint: Andrew Jackson caused _______ to happen...maybe indirectly though.But he still caused the events that led up to it.*** | The banks were printing too much paper money which caused inflation. Then everyone wanted to exchange their paper money for gold/silver so the banks bankrupted(HA! That was a pun)and the economy went ploop. |
| Who was John Sutter? | He was a Swiss immigrant who procured 50k acres of land in the unsettled Sacramento Valley. Sutter built a fort on his land which would later be important. |
| Which of the following people fought in the Mexican-American War? A.)George Washington B.)Horace Mann C.)Stephen Kearny d.)Winfield Scott e.)none of the above f.)both c and d g.)both b and d | f.) both c and d |
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